Subject: Re: the economies of scale of a Worldcon, From: Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:08:22 -0700
On Sep 21, 2012, at 10:00 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
A lot of this, too, depends on what the concom negotiated with the property about wifi access already.
And this is where you're going to hit some very hard walls.
One of which I forgot to mention. Many of the hotels (I believe all Hilton properties at this time) have sold the facilities space for their wifi network to another company. They CAN'T negotiate it with you, because they don't own it any more. And most of these wifi networks have stealth killers enabled, so that they spoof any other wifi zone they see and send back reject messages to the clients. So you can't run them side by side.
This _is_ a "let's you and him fight" comment, but one might want to run an inquiry past the Friendly Candy Company, about the _legality_ of such 'killers' -- there are rules prorscribing _deliberate_/_intentional_ *active* "interference with radio communication" that do apply to 'unlicensed' spectrum.