If you are looking for wireless in Chicago I would suggest Business Only Broadband. I don't have any direct experience with them, but others have had good things to say. Regardless, I agree with David; wireless is ideal for short-term bandwidth needs. -Matt David E. Smith wrote:
On Tue, August 7, 2007 6:48 pm, Carl Karsten wrote:
1. bandwidth for PyCon, and no one else. This is the easiest, but most costly. (20k ish total)
That seems awfully high for a short-term hookup, though from the rest of the email I'm guessing you're mainly looking at wireline hookups. Have you shopped around for a short-term wireless link?
If you can get on the roof of the hotel, and the roof of someone else nearby that has more bandwidth, and point a pair of radios at each other, that's probably do-able for far less than 20k.
In Chicago, the folks at CW Lab (www.cwlab.com) may be able to get you started. They're more of a consulting firm now, from the looks of their Web site, but they've done things like this before, and they're local to Chicago; if they can't help they probably know someone who can.
David Smith MVN.net