[Scale-planning] [Tech] wifi SSID WAS Re: Signage

[Hriday Balachandran]

You guys worry too much. Wireless is going to be awesome next year.
(famous last words)

With regards to staff wifi, Zach, do we have any stats on the number
of people that used it? I'm trying to understand what the motivation
for that was. We might be able to get away with not having one next
time.

On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 4:19 PM, Ilan Rabinovitch <ilan at linuxfests.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 5:02 AM, Zach Underwood <zunder1990 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> As for as hiding staff SSID that is a waste of time, I dont think many, if
>> any of the public was thinking they needed to join to the staff network. At
>> some point you cant fix stupid.
>
>
> I'm going to disagree.  This is a UX thing we can make better. Don't show
> people things they dont need.
>
>> I think the biggest problem with SSID was the amount of non SCALE ssid
>> showing up, where this was the biggest problem was on the expo floor where
>> at any given time there was 20+ SSIDs.
>
>
> We can't control all the hotel APs. We can remind exhibitors not to run
> their own, but only if we can ensure the wireless setup is flawless from the
> minute they show up.
>
>
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