Forgive any brashness here, but “taking away” the network due to complaints of it being over loaded seems excessive and unwarranted. There are ways to implement network segregation, quotas, QoS, etc. and setup temporary networks for exhibitors or attendees. That being said, shame on those that vindicated IA, which provided a free service and experienced a moment of congestion. Of course 1500 people all going through one pipe is going to be slow. If you go to any major event there are quality and service disruptions.. -Ian L. On Fri, Jan 9, 2026 at 17:03 Martin A Flynn via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On 1/9/2026 2:38 PM, Dan FitzGerald wrote:
I am designing my exhibit for VCF East, and would like to know if we are going to have site-wide public wifi for the event. Whether we do or not will affect what kinds of things I do with my exibit; specifically, if I am going to allow for attendees for remote access to my personal mainframe system, and whether or not I will attempt any cross-site demos of the OfficeVision/VM (PROFS) mail program.
Do you think that this will be possible?
Dan,
After InfoAge and myself getting thoroughly beat up for Wi-Fi issues at a previous VCFe, the decision was made to no longer provide "public" Wi-Fi at InfoAge.
InfoAge does provide staff Wi-Fi in the areas that were equipped by the volunteers from CDL, VCF, and the RTM, however it is definitely not site-wide.
Martin Flynn