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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber
Here's why - FIRST has asked teams nicely NOT to use wifi at events as it interferes with the Field. Yes, ticking off the FTA is a bad thing. They are already stressed enough without your punk team deciding the rules don't apply to them for WHATEVER reason you are using to justify it.
Frankly, I'm appalled that you're so easily discussing interfering with the field. But I'm more annoyed at how easily you discount the impact your actions will have on the volunteers who will face the repercussions. Because when the field doesn't work nobody is going to come to you, they'll go to the FTA and then the FTA will have to spend an hour of their time hunting down your stupid wifi network while listening to people blame them/NI/Cisco.
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Yash
Think this through. Please! What if the interference you produce causes one or more robots on the field to malfunction? What if an alliance lost a match because of it? What if an alliance lost Einstein because of it? What if your team, or one of your friends teams, was on that alliance? These are NOT hypothetical questions!
Did anyone notice that the robots on the practice field are required to run with ethernet tethers? Maybe the do that to prevent interference on the actual competition field. Please don't make arguments about "being far enough away not to cause interference" unless you are able and willing to prove it by doing a comprehensive survey of the competition venue like what the cell phone companies do to select cell sites.
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Originally Posted by techhelpbb
Considering we move the actual electricity in the pits over and over I fail to see how this is any worse.
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It is not impossible. It is just even more work for the people setting up. It is not too hard to find volunteers to help run power cords and check that they work.