I wrote this article (and revised it a couple times) this fall/winter after helping a small conference get a 30 Mbps net connection serving about 200 devices at

I wrote this article (and revised it a couple times) this fall/winter after helping a small conference get a 30 Mbps net connection serving about 200 devices at its peak. I was wondering if anyone else has experience getting something like this going on their own. In researching how I was going to set up the network for this particular conference, I noted that there are very few articles discussing smaller venue WiFi. There's a lot of discussion of huge conference WiFi improvements, and specialized companies and consultants for that purpose... but not much for a modest-sized local meetup—where one needs a short-term, cheap network that can serve anywhere between 20 and 200 or so people (a need I've seen fairly often). Sometimes, just having a few people bring in 4G hotspots is all that's needed... but this (a) doesn't offer much speed when more than a few users connect, and (b) can't be centrally monitored/administered, and often leads to frustration.