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Got wireless? You're out of luck

By Keith Shaw
Network World Fusion, 11/18/02

Apparently all those journalists covering this show decided to activate their wireless LAN cards in their notebook.

The wireless LAN in the press room was working, but the DHCP server that was supposed to assign out IP addresses apparently gave out all of its addresses.

The helpful guy at the wireless LAN help desk said that they were only given 400 IP addresses, and by 11 a.m. there were over 600 journalists who had received an IP address from the DHCP server. New requests were being denied until previous users released their address, so while we could connect to the access point easily, we couldn't get to the Internet at large. Trying to connect to the wireless LAN became a crap shoot, ironically in Vegas.

It's unclear whether this problem was also happening at other wireless LAN locations throughout the show.

Note: This entry posted from the regular computers provided by the press room and connected to a wired network.


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