Internet at Competitions

[Deetman]

Originally Posted by yash101

Just install DD-WRT x86 on a laptop with a powerful antenna! That'll hold all that bandwidth! You'll have an actual processor instead of a 240MHz ARM!

Doing that will say good bye to the possible hiccups in the network infrastructre if you don't want to pay a thousand dollars for a router!

That is not how the RF Spectrum works. You can't just throw more power at it to solve all the issues. There is a finite amount of bandwidth that can be squeezed into each frequency range. Throw in interference from multiple devices that may or may not play nicely with each other and you are in for a mess. On top of that, general purpose equipment will NEVER be faster than specialized equipment (like the Cisco routers) even if the general processor is an order of magnitude faster. There are good reason why quality equipment costs a lot of money.