@matteofabiano writes “TC50 wifi overloaded. Way too slow.”
It’s not the only note I’ve seen already about the Wifi sucking and the show hasn’t even started yet.
Jason Calacanis, co-founder of TC50, wrote last night: ““90 mbits of bandwidth at tc50 location. Roof antena and wire line. Wifi for 1500 devices. I hope we stay up!!!”
Has anyone figured out how to do good wifi for an event this size yet? I heard that TC50 spent $50,000 on the wifi. When I was at the IFA show last week in Berlin the Showstoppers co-founders told me that figure isn’t out of line. They told me that wifi is one of the great headaches of putting on a show.
Yert -
You said “most laptops don’t necessarily have the hardware to deal with the 5 GHz band”.
The only way this would be true is if you either are buying $400 note books or have a population of very old notebooks (+3 years).
.11a (5Ghz) support eclipsed 2.4Ghz only support in June of 2004 when Intel changed all centrino to a/b/g support. And, any MAC shipped in the last 2 years has a/b/g/n built in.
It’s surprising how many people have no idea they are tri-mode already.
Yert -
You said “most laptops don’t necessarily have the hardware to deal with the 5 GHz band”.
The only way this would be true is if you either are buying $400 note books or have a population of very old notebooks (+3 years).
.11a (5Ghz) support eclipsed 2.4Ghz only support in June of 2004 when Intel changed all centrino to a/b/g support. And, any MAC shipped in the last 2 years has a/b/g/n built in.
It’s surprising how many people have no idea they are tri-mode already.