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How many attendees were there? I tried to find some numbers real quick and couldn't manage to find them. For conferences (or any high density user environment
by ismarc 15y ago
How many attendees were there? I tried to find some numbers real quick and couldn't manage to find them. For conferences (or any high density user environment), the density of users has a massive impact on how the network needs to be designed (omni vs. directional antennas, output power, individual channel selection, switching infrastructure, etc.). There reaches a point where the device density is so high that even narrow beam antennas at the lowest power setting can easily be hitting max associations. Really the only way to provide good coverage at any sort of event is to plan ahead (months in advance, especially for tech-heavy conferences) and not trust that the IT department of the venue will know how to properly set up the access.
- cramforce 15y agoAt the last JSConf, 370 attendees, ~1000 devices online. You are absolutely right. At a certain density all bets are off. We were pretty close to this point at several points in time. The problem gets much harder with more people. The blog post is very much not about technical details. Having people who actually care is what really counts. This is all, of course, presented in term of not-for-profit-conf where paying people to get it right is usually not an option.
- ismarc 15y agoYeah, that's definitely in the "too small to pay a company but big enough to have real problems to solve" range. I completely agree that just having people who care (and plan ahead) goes the furthest. At a previous employer, the number of "Oh, we have a conference going on and the internet access sucks, please fix it" or "Yeah, we have a conference this weekend with <ABSURD NUMBER OF ATTENDEES>, can you get it built out for us?" calls we got were absolutely insane.