Comments on: Suggestion for FON

By: Conor

Conor — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:56:00 +0000

So true! Still hankering for that Vodafone/HTC Compact III.

I think one person tried to do it with their XDA but failed.

By: Evert Bopp

Evert Bopp — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:35:38 +0000

Laptop?!
Who needs a laptop to use WiFi?!
That’s sooo last year….

By: Conor

Conor — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 23:33:25 +0000

I actually don’t know. It really wasn’t a laptop-type gig in any case. I barely got time to twitter!

By: Evert Bopp

Evert Bopp — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 13:44:29 +0000

And was there WiFi coverage?
And did it work?

By: Conor

Conor — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:51:17 +0000

Ah, my wife did her MSc in Mechanical Engineering in that dental building!

Bloody dd-wrt – love the features, hate the throughput.

Guess we’ll have to play by the rules.

By: Antoin O Lachtnain

Antoin O Lachtnain — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 21:30:32 +0000

The nearest TCD building is about 50 feet away, but it’s just a shed. There’s one of the dental buildings a bit further, but it’s really too far. Also, we are talking about a basement in the Alexander, which (I think) is built of reinforced concrete.

If you were feeling guerilla about it, you could probably repeat the hotel’s broadband with dd-wrt or similar.

By: Conor

Conor — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:47:43 +0000

I think the hotel might be the blocker on this as they have their own non-free Wifi. Pity.

The disaster of LeWbe3 shows how the bandwidth management bit can bite a conference badly.

Of course you could apply the Starbucks plan here and provide FON routers to every building in the vicinity How far to the nearest TCD building?

By: Antoin O Lachtnain

Antoin O Lachtnain — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:37:49 +0000

Well, it’s very easy to do it. But there has to be a big enough broadband connection available, and that’s hard to arrange at short notice. (Expensive too, if it’s only for one event.

Obviously it can’t be done without the agreement of the owners of the hotel.

Although a simple setup is easy enough, catering for a large number of users at an event is no joke. The bandwidth management, etc. takes a good bit of organization.

By: Conor

Conor — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:48:02 +0000

Great offer Evert! TBH, I don’t know whether the hotel for the IBA has it’s own free wifi or not.

By: Evert Bopp

Evert Bopp — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:44:53 +0000

Forget about Fon, I’ll do it!
If any of the people involved with the Irish Blog Awards read this and are interested in high bandwidth dependable wifi coverage for the event they can contact me.
The same goes for organisers for similar events. For the next 3 months we will provide, install and configure the wifi network for any event that meets our criteria..