It's unfortunate that VCFed can't find a way to provide this for the attendees at the show, even if it's not provided by infoage. There are good options for Wireless and Satellite network uplinks, so you're not even limited to what connectivity the site has to it. Actually, considering that IA is a non profit more or less educational entity, it should look at joining Eduroam... Even hospitals and museums have joined into that. Patrick Finnegan On Fri, Jan 9, 2026, 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