[AusNOG] Getting a network out of a box...

[Damien Gardner Jnr]

They must vacuum it, so there will be power points. Ethernet over Power,
and find another point outside the room on the same phase?

On Sat, 31 Jul 2021 at 8:40 am, James Hodgkinson <yaleman at ricetek.net>
wrote:

> It’s a special event, so run a red carpet down the hall way and run a
> cable under that? :) You’ll have power etc for streaming cameras and other
> gear so one more cable  shouldn’t be an issue and the cable can be gaffa
> taped down and exit somewhere else.
>
> Or skip the carpet and just run it along the skirting board and out the
> door 😅
>
> James
>
> On 2021-07-31 02:39 Karl Auer wrote:
> > I hope this is not inappropriate for this forum...
> >
> > We need to stream from a particular venue that has no wired access in
> > the space we will be streaming from. It's a cinema, so every wall and
> > the ceiling is fireproofed/firewalled. Punching holes in any of them is
> > a big, big deal, and not going to happen for one event. The floor is
> > concrete. The venue has wifi, but our experiments have shown it to be
> > poor - one access point, quite distant and through a couple more walls.
> >
> > The projection room is directly adjacent and through only one wall, and
> > it has excellent access to the venue's wired network. There are glass
> > projection ports in that wall, but they do not open. 2.4G reaches from
> > the space into the projection room OK, 5GHz does not do so well. With
> > an audience in the space, all with mobile phones, all with wifi turned
> > on, we are concerned that we will lose wifi performance, even if the
> > signal strength is good, and even though we will not be permitting
> > those devices to actually associate with the wifi.
> >
> > So how do we stream from inside this space to the outside world with
> > anything approaching speed or reliability? The bandwidth bottleneck
> > will be the venue's NBN connection, but anything that is as fast or
> > faster than (say) 50mb/s will do the job.
> >
> > Right now my best solution - and I doubt a very good one - is to put a
> > 2.4GHz access point against the wall inside the projection room, wired
> > to the venue network, put a wifi station against the wall outside the
> > projection room, and run an ethernet cable to the streaming station.
> >
> > Any other ideas gratefully received.
> >
> > Regards, K.
> >
> > PS Mobile telephony is not an option here. FSO might work through the
> > projection ports, but probably expensive, LOS will be a problem with an
> > audience, and we'd probably have difficulty with accurate mounts (the
> > available tech is nailguns and hot glue :-)
> >
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