sampa : colin’s blog

The wireless network connectivity here at the TSS Symposium is simply unbelievably bad. Signal strength is consistently good, but much (most) of the time, you can not connect, or once you have a connection, you can count on it being unusable after a few minutes. I think it’s a matter of just too much contention for the same airspace. I guess that’s what happens when you put together 500+ geeks in the same space, many of them carrying notebooks.

What any event like this needs to do is also set up some stations with ethernet hubs and cables to allow attendees to get on a wired network. This way people could hook up and do some essential functions, without killing an hour trying to send a single email (with a 100k attachement) over the wireless network, as I’ve just had to.