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Re: Wifi at St Joseph Event

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Originally Posted by hardcopi View Post
Basically we have $20,000 worth of equipment and a network engineer on-site to make sure everything was configured properly and wouldn't interfere. Actually probably had a lot less interference at St Joe this year because of it. With readily available wifi I saw a lot less hotspots popping up.

Wifi isn't the issue, wifi that is on the same band as the field is. Our Pod was programmed so it didn't touch the field's preferred band. (I'm not a network engineer so I could be misquoting here).

Ultimately we'd love to bundle a pod with each field. This would eliminate the "wifi" issue at every single event.
This should honestly be at every event. Even trying to fix our profiling app was a huge struggle because we couldn't get onto wifi, even though all the tablets had Sourcetree installed and it would have taken no time at all to pull down an update. Also would be great to have for the purpose of transferring match data to our chief strategist in the pits before meetings with alliance partners... Many headaches and heart attacks from the profiling team could be avoided.
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