The problem there appears to have been the density of MiFi boxes all
offering access and a WiFi stack that crashed in the presence of 500+ access
points.
I am not sure that we have experience operating in that zone either.
Of course, had said vendor been more willing to allow tethering on their
phone the MiFi boxes might not have become so popular/necessary.
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Yoav Nir <ynir(_at_)checkpoint(_dot_)com> wrote:
On Jan 4, 2011, at 5:55 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
It could be the 11a support.
Or it might well be the vendor that supplies the 11a equipment.
At home I have a box with 7 defunct WiFi routers that I discarded after
they started to fail. Specifically the wireless side of the router would
stop functioning or require rebooting every 24 hours or so to keep
functioning.
Then three years ago I mentioned the problem on this list and bought an
AirPort Extreme on the advice of several people.
It has now been running for three years without issue.
I do notice that a significant proportion of laptops used at IETFs are
produced by one specific vendor. And lets face it, we are the type of
audience that is quite willing to pay two to three times the minimum for a
laptop.
Wouldn't the same be true for media events staged by that same specific
vendor? That was the event the NYT article described.
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