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Perhaps someone more technologically inclined than I am can shed light on this but when a company like Apple hosts a marquee event like WWDC why can't they see

Perhaps someone more technologically inclined than I am can shed light on this but when a company like Apple hosts a marquee event like WWDC why can't they see how many people will be at the event, then deploy enough wifi routers to meet demand? Especially when Apple makes their own wifi routers. Across wifi a,b,g,and n there should be plenty of spectrum to go around. If a company can deploy 10,000 servers in one room, why can't they deploy 100 wifi routers?

DrStalker 16y ago
Do you have the manpower and budget to get those 100 wi-fi routers set up and tested in 1 day? Most convention locations don't allow for a huge amount of prep time.
- tgvcfgtbvcfgh 16y ago
  It can be done if the people have good equipement and REALLY know what they are doing. The trouble is that the venue hire the cheapest people to fit the system and have no clue how to run it. Since nobody knows how the good the system is before they do the show you have to trust the venue - when you find out it's crap it's too late - so there's no incentive to do a good job.
vgbhjnmkl 16y ago
Because there aren't 100 separate wifi channels (frequencies) so if you put big powerful routers with lots of signal then people from the other end of the room will try and connect, if you put little low power ones then they intefere with each other. Then you have the overhead of 1000s of people trying to connect, their wifi cards not receiving a response because the router is busy so they try on another channel tying that one up as well. Wifi really isn't designed for this sort of setup - it's amazingly difficult to get it right, throwing hardware just makes it worse
modeless 16y ago
You can install as many of the highest quality routers as you like, but you can't control the devices. The devices interfere with each other because they weren't designed for or tested in an environment with thousands in the same room (and many if not most WiFi devices have crappy hardware and/or software).

DrStalker 16y ago

Do you have the manpower and budget to get those 100 wi-fi routers set up and tested in 1 day? Most convention locations don't allow for a huge amount of prep time.

tgvcfgtbvcfgh 16y ago
It can be done if the people have good equipement and REALLY know what they are doing. The trouble is that the venue hire the cheapest people to fit the system and have no clue how to run it. Since nobody knows how the good the system is before they do the show you have to trust the venue - when you find out it's crap it's too late - so there's no incentive to do a good job.

vgbhjnmkl 16y ago

Because there aren't 100 separate wifi channels (frequencies) so if you put big powerful routers with lots of signal then people from the other end of the room will try and connect, if you put little low power ones then they intefere with each other. Then you have the overhead of 1000s of people trying to connect, their wifi cards not receiving a response because the router is busy so they try on another channel tying that one up as well. Wifi really isn't designed for this sort of setup - it's amazingly difficult to get it right, throwing hardware just makes it worse

modeless 16y ago

You can install as many of the highest quality routers as you like, but you can't control the devices. The devices interfere with each other because they weren't designed for or tested in an environment with thousands in the same room (and many if not most WiFi devices have crappy hardware and/or software).