Hello everyone, Please don't reply to this topic further. As others have mentioned, public wifi isn't available at InfoAge to everyone, only InfoAge staff. It doesn't have the capacity for a large show like VCF East without a lot of time, money, equipment and effort. Questions about exhibits for VCF East should be directed to me, the showrunner for VCF East. I have volunteers that can help with these sorts of questions that the mailing list cannot. We are all grateful for the work that volunteers from CDL and VCF have provided to get the wifi network that exists at InfoAge. It has come a long way from the early days of limited, expensive internet solutions. Last year we provided exhibitors with a last minute, affordable workaround with the enormous help of August Culbert and others. We used 3 Mobile Citizen Hotspot access points (owned by VCF) around campus to provide exhibitors and vendors wifi. The access points cost $265 for the device and $12 per month to non-profits. So very affordable. August and I are working on a solution for exhibitors and vendors for VCF East 2026. We will let them know when we have finalized the plan. Thank you! Jeff Brace VCF East Showrunner On Fri, Jan 9, 2026 at 6:42 PM Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I think this is getting way off track and posting blame isn't going to change the network.
I take exception with the understanding of what it takes to build a network. I've built very large networks (Corp 50 type networks). I haven't built exhibition networks. Those are two different things. This network is not designed to handle an expo center network, especially on a campus env.
Remember this network was built with volunteers and a lot (if not all) was donated. Not a cheap thing, expecially with 10G fiber between the building.
If someone wished to cough up the dollars and volunteers to build an expo network, please step up.
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