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Originally Posted by Pat Fairbank
Last year, when at the Canadian Regional I wanted to know why they didn't just make the wired internet they already had wireless, someone (I believe it was Steve W) told me that one reason FIRST generally does not encourage wireless internet is that they don't want to be responsible in the event that a potential sponsor or someone observe a student 'misusing' the internet and get a therefore get bad impression of FIRST from it.
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That is correct. There are a lot of people that walk through the pit area. All it would take is one person, student or adult, to be viewing an inappropriate site and a lot of our work could be shot down. If FIRST allows it then FIRST would be responsible for all outcomes.
At CR last year, Bell Canada provided some telephone lines and high speed access for the score table and pit area. We thought it best not to make available on wireless because we couldn't control the sites accessed. We did provide 2 computers with high speed access and 2 other connections for wired access. These were both available next to the pit admin table were there would be some supervision. Even at that I had a report of certain inappropriate sites that had been accessed. We were not sure by who but we continued with a close eye at that table.