[committee] [wheel] internet access for astronomy conference

[Scott Young]

Which lecture theatre? It's possible to connect to UCC's VPN over the
SNAP network run by the university, so if SNAP infrastructure is there
already, then we wouldn't need to set up any wireless hardware.

UCC's Bright link (the non-AARNet one) is burstable to something like
3Mbps, IIRC, but considering that some club members think it's too
slow for general use in the clubroom, I don't know how suitable it
would be for a couple of hundred users.

Scott

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Andrew Williams
<andrew at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
>
>  UCC is still one of the possibilities for supporting and providing internet
> access during the Astronomy Society of Australia conference, July 6-10 this
> year. Can anyone tell me in the next few hours:
>
>  -how big UCC's non-PARNET link is - as I understand it, we can't use PARNET
> without giving each attendee a unique username/password. Can it support a
> couple of hundred users?
>
>  -Is UCC willing to commit to providing people (and possibly equipment) to
> set up a few wireless access points and a switch on a desk for non-wireless
> access? The lecture theatre especially will need to handle 20-50
> simultaneous wireless users...
>
>  Andrew
>
>
>