Internet FAIL at Conferences… Nothing New

Reading about this Internet FAIL at Le Web reminded me of how our previous UnConference 2007 in July 2008 also suffered problems with intermittent Internet.

NCS OneSurf provided bad internet, still charged us and provided no-recourse even after the event was over.

Luckily iCell meshed in Wireless@SG as a backup. And we got a couple of 3G Starhub MaxMobile dongles.

Locations really need to learn to catch up with the Internet world. Venues that have adequate infrastructure are quite difficult to find.

Luckily some of the best place are actually in the Universities in Singapore because many of them are already used to 95% penetration of laptops since 5-6 years ago. In Uni, just about every student brings a laptop to lecture theatres. Being a daily requirement means that many of the lecture halls are equipped with one power socket per seat, lan ports per seat and wifi.

But not all lecture facilities are good for conferencing though… argh…

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