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Plone conference 2009 Wireless network

by Wyn Williams — last modified Oct 22, 2009 08:30 PM

The Plone conference wireless network is being provided "in house" by Greenfinity with a lot of support from some of the 2009 conference members attending.

Taking into account previous conferences gave us a good understanding of the level of support needed by conference attendees and so we have designed a network that will allow all attendees to connect to the wireless network in all the rooms that talks or training are being held in.

We are supporting all hardware, new and old, including 802.11 a/b/g/n at the conference and after the first day we will adjust the network to take into account the hardware around.

The network will be using the University backbone and has its own set of firewall rules we would appreciate if you read these rules are to protect both ourselves and the University from malicious software and viruses on users equipment.


1: Do not use port scanners (Nmap etc.) as you will be cut off from the network.
2: Do not try to probe other users systems or the firewall, you will be cut off.
3: If a users equipment has a virus that tries to spread itself throughout the network (A broadcast virus for example) or sends spam you will be cut off from the network.

The Wireless network name is PloneConf2009 - password: conference2009

The encryption used is WPA-PSK and WPA2-PSK, we have chosen a simple password as the aim is just to stop random people connecting to our network.

In all cases you can contact the network support team by finding one of the conference organizers or calling Spanky™ on +36.70.292.8383 and we will sort out the issue with you and get you back up on the network as soon as possible.

We hope all of you will have a smooth wireless experience at the conference and a great trip to Hungary.

 

 

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Tips from the PyCon wifi providers

Posted by Alexander Limi at Oct 26, 2009 03:18 AM
The people that successfully did this at the last couple of PyCons have some excellent tips here:

http://serverfault.com/[…]/74671#74671

It seems that 5GHz (ie. n, a) networks seem to handle this kind of load much better than 2.4GHz (b, g). Most modern laptops from the past 2-3 years have 5GHz support.

Anyway, I'm sure you're on top of the situation, and I'm looking forward to the conference!
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