By the book: wifi-less scouting?

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If you read section 4.3.1 Robot Wireless Control in the rules, you will see that wireless networks are prohibited anyway.

Teams are not allowed to set up their own 802.11a/b/g/n (2.4GHz or 5GHz) wireless communication (access points or ad-hoc networks) in the venue

Note that a wireless hot spot created by a cellular device would be considered an access point, and thus not allowed

This is probably made to prevent the wireless networks from interfering with the FMS, but could also be due to the fact that many arenas have vendor-supplied wifi and could have urged FIRST to make this rule. Either way, you shouldn't setup a wireless network at a event (unless it's a bluetooth PAN).

Because of this rule, our team has setup a completely wired network using a Apache2 server running on a laptop and a router to connect to other laptops which scouts use. However, we ran into issues with getting power at our last regional and needed to fall back on our paper system.