The last great technological hurdle – conference wireless (dammit)
Apparently broadband is becoming ubiquitous, however there are hidden, terrifying dark spots where consistent access to the Internet is fleeting at best, and outright infuriatingly scarce at worst.
We call those dark spots “tech conferences“.
Those mystical places where executives gather to hobknob, VC deals are done, demos are…demoed, and magical evil forces are at work seeking out broadband access and annihilating it with amazing completeness.
Seriously, when are we going to see a tech conference that solves the attendee wireless challenge? So I don’t have to hit refresh 7 times on every Web page I visit? Or flee to the nearest Starbucks to hope they have escaped the magic dark vortex?
I share Ian Davis’ comments:
One thing that strikes me about all the talks and presentations at this conference is that they all assume ubiquitous net access. Kind of ironic then that the wireless access here has gone the way of oceanic flight 815. So, since this is the web and I like to link in my posts, having two out of three page requests fail makes for very little blogging from me at the moment. Even though I’m sitting right under what looks like a huge wifi access point bolted to the ceiling and have great signal strength, it’s completely wasted when DHCP and DNS are out. You’d think at the Web 2.0 conference they’d actually have wireless that worked, wouldn’t you?
Or, to summarize:
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
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Very funny and unfortunately true. Just back from the widgetslive conference and apparently there’s not much wifi joy at web2con either. The same was true at Gnomedex last year.
seriously, such a pain. I don’t envy the guys on the hook for making the event wireless flow smoothly, given the massive strain put on the system at these shows. But it’s tempting me to pick up an EVDO card or some kind of wireless broadband at least as a backup.