Steve Cellini pointed out that in my previous
blog entry I wasn't quite accurate... in his words:
"Actually… we haven’t promised that :-) Won’t be in the keynote room, for instance.
802.11b can’t deal with thousands of closely packed souls all trying to get an IP
address. Maybe at the next PDC we’ll using something better (802.11g can handle this,
apparently, but IANANE). We will be using a modified form of the “Warchaulking” symbol
to indicate areas that we have explicitly rigged for WiFi.
We have tried to get it right in the track lounges, breakout rooms, and other
common areas, but we’re still dealing with an inexact science and a crummy protocol.
We will have radio-dispatched folks patrolling around keeping tabs on the state of
WiFi and reporting back to the IT command center (buried deep in bedrock 200’ below
the conference center)… our hope is that we’ll be able to react in real time to problems
and keep people informed about areas that are over/under-utilized. We will also have
some number of hard-wired access points…
Hope this helps - Steve"
I'm going to try and find the IT command center while I"m there!!!! ;-)