Setting Up WiFi Services for Your Event
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Setting up WiFi services for a large event can be difficult. But for a lot of events WiFi is important or even essential. Often existing WiFi services provided by a venue will not be able to provide adequate coverage and bandwidth to support a large number of users at the same time. And yet there are many purposes of providing WiFi services at your festival, performance, sporting event, conference or meeting.
WiFi access at events can be a big draw to visitors, and conferences and seminars may rely on WiFi for use by the hosts and attendees, for research, working, blogging and presentations. Event WiFi may be necessary for promotional purposes; a press presence may require WiFi access for publication, and WiFi access can lead to promotion through your visitors’ use of social networks.
This is why more and more event organisers are turning to temporary internet. Supplied by IT systems companies, temporary Event WiFi will allow you to set up WiFi services wherever you are hosting your event, whether you are hosting 100 or 10,000 people. The process of planning the connection is very complicated, but it is worth bearing in mind a few points to help your providers to ensure an adequate connection.
Know your venue:
Knowing your venue is essential to provide suitable WiFi. The size and shape of a venue is key and it is likely your providers will need to make a visit to understand the size and shape of the area. Consider where the access points could be set up; they are usually located as high as possible to provide wider coverage. In outdoor venues make sure that nothing could block signal from a transmitter by being based in front of it. Lorries can block a 13 or 14 foot access point.
People, furniture and architecture can affect the strength of a WiFi signal, and microwaves can with it interfere too. For events longer than half a day consider whether you have adequate power sources for attendees to charge their devices. If your event relies upon internet access then tell your IT systems WiFi provider. Make sure that they have backup equipment such as multiple transit providers and DHCP servers. Failure to provide a promised or essential network will reflect on you badly as an event organiser and leave an unimpressed crowd.
Understand your crowd:
To work out the kind of bandwidth which you require you will need to predict your crowd’s WiFi usage. Think about what kind of attendees you are expecting; are they tech-savvy, young or particularly likely to own portable devices? Then deduct what proportion of attendees to your event will bring a WiFi enabled device, how many of these will be using your WiFi services at a set time, and for what purpose. Consider your crowd’s needs for downloading, streaming or uploading.
Safety:
You should make sure that you’re providing a safe network. Think about sites which you may want to block, and take precautions to prevent people from uploading viruses.
Managing the network during your event:
Your event WiFi providers should be able to provide people to manage your bandwidth. This is important as bandwidth demand will rise and fall throughout your ongoing event. Considering these areas will give your event WiFi providers a good idea of what you require and how best to provide it to ensure you have a strong and reliable connection at your event. |
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Author Resource:-
Noba are an IT systems provider who specialise in providing internet anywhere, including WiFi for events. Their cost-effective WiFi services are tailored to your needs by expert engineers.
For more information about Noba Temporary WiFi, visit: www.noba.co.uk
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By :
Peter Simmons
Submitted
2012-02-01 15:48:32 |
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