[Rack] help with robust wifi equipment for open source conference

[Ben Kochie]

Hey.  I know a number of people that do high density wifi work for IETF.

We generally deploy managed APs in lower power mode atleast every 50 feet 
within a conference room.  This minimizes the number of client devices per 
AP

+Jim who knows a ton about this stuff and might have some suggestions on 
where to rent this kind of gear.

If this is on the SFSU campus, you should really work with them to find 
out what their AP deployment is like and see if it's possible to create a 
virtal wifi vlan within their gear.

-ben

On Thu, 27 Oct 2011, Florian Friesdorf wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> plone conference [1] is coming up and due to sad circumstances we are
> short of wifi equipment and solid knowledge about it. I talked to
> rubin110 in #noisebridge who told me to write to you.
>
> The conference will take place on the downtown SFSU campus, it'll be
> around 300 people, over 2000 sqft, 8 rooms, all on one floor. We expect
> a lot of connections per person as everybody will be waving their mobile
> phones and run buildouts, that trigger many connections. Conclusion is
> that consumer hardware won't cut it. Most users will be on Macs.
>
> 1st/2nd Nov there'll be tutorials, 3rd-6th conference,
> 7th/8th sprints.
>
> Could you help us with with equipment?
> Could you recommend us equipment to buy?
> Could you help setting things up?
>
> rubin110 recommended http://ubnt.com/unifi - thoughts about that?
>
> flo
> µCCC
>
> [1] http://ploneconf.org
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