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Re: Thursday, July 11, 2002
The Royal Caribbean Explorer of the Seas project for October took an interesting turn today: Now that the Wi-Fi lightbulb that was so dim over the heads of the cruise industry is glowing like a Christmas Tree bulb with a loose connection, I've been told RC is going to configure their own access points for the public areas and the conference rooms. This is great for end-users, but it just about kills my GigaWave, Planet3 Wireless, and other lab classes, because now we can't set up our equipment because they are afraid it will create problems with theirs. I tried to explain that Channel 1, 6, and 11 do not overlap in their signal signatures, but that apparently didn't satisfy anyone in Networking. But it will be a great place to blog. The event is no longer called Bahamas BLOG 2002, since we are only in the Bahamas one of the 14 days: we are calling it Tsunami BLOG 2002 ("Tsunami" is the default password on all CISCO access points, if you ever get that SSID/Network Name to pop up, as it did for Randal Swartz with his sniffer software at MacMania 2002, grabbing passwords out of the air.) Getting the satellite rates from Royal Caribbean took forever. It was impossible to price the event without knowing what the Internet access fee was going to be. Now we are getting ready to post the event notice soon for this first ever Beta test. Alan Reiter is very interested in this project and wants to speak on the first week of the two week event. Syngress is going to sponsor my Track on Cisco WLANs. Story at eleven...
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