Wireless connection may be depends on clear sight between their presence and the hotel. Or contact local cable modem provider for short term arrangement if they have coverage for the hotel using existing coax cable. ^.^ Hyun Matt Liotta wrote:
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