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Originally Posted by saikiranra
It opens a whole world of possibilities. If you have internet in the pits and in the stands, you can seamlessly and effortlessly transfer data to create comprehensive match strategies. In addition, you can talk to the scouts via chat and ask them for opinions and suggestions all from within your pit. It also helps with collaborative scouting, for something like CowScout, where you want multiple sources of data from different events.
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What you are saying is true. It does not answer my question regarding what your priorities are. As I stated earlier in my post, the WiFi bandwidth can carry only so much data. Do you want to use it to control your robots or do you want to use it chat and pass around data about robots that would kill on the field if they could be made to operate? This is an engineering competition. In engineering, one has to make tough choices based on one's priorities.
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Originally Posted by techhelpbb
I personally am in favor of offering teams Internet access - by twisted pair ethernet in the pits. This has the distinct advantage of consuming zero radio spectrum unless the event coordinators decide to backhaul the traffic with WiFi.
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This is also true. The data rates could then much higher than what you could achieve with WiFi. It would also take a lot of work to set up properly. The type of equipment used to create a such network is not typically meant to be moved around and I suspect that after some time, some of the connections would become flaky and teams would complain loudly here.