[Sagar Vyas]

Originally Posted by Qbranch

1 word, 2 syllables.

BANDWIDTH

It would take a heck of a lot of server and AP power to be able to serve video on demand to that many laptops. I'm guessing several hundred would be logged on at a time, and....

Ok, for instance, lets say there are 300 laptops online.

With timeslice issues you can usually fit about 20 laptops/radio, so lets be optimistic and say our AP has a diversity antenna (2 radios). So that brings us to 40 laptops/AP. So, being optimistic, you'd need eight access points. Keep in mind, this would be pretty low bitrate video and would have a slow framerate. Plus, I'm being optimistic with the 20 laptops/radio. On the server end, I don't know how much hardware you would need.


BUT I'd really really like it if someone was willing to spend the time+money+effort to make this happen, it'd be awesome!

-Q

The video is easy to stream at a very low bitrate, it could be hosted off a very powerful server. Since its for the pits, FIRST could pre-wire the pits with RJ-45 ethernet jacks so you could just easily plug in your laptop and logon to Sundial without the hassle of connecting to the wireless Sundial network, but still keeping the wireless Sundial network active.