Project:UK Hack Camp: Difference between revisions
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| The biggest challenge is to find a decent site with the ability to get hold of a good (at least 100meg) internet connection. | | The biggest challenge is to find a decent site with the ability to get hold of a good (at least 100meg) internet connection. |
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| | | Please add discussion and suggestions to [[Project:UK Hack Camp/Candidate sites|the list of candidate sites]]. |
| *it's possible to rent a connection via satellite for a reasonable price. An event I recently attended had a commercial video photographer using one, and it wasn't a big-bucks setup by any means. Afaicr he had at least 10meg but more may be possible - he considered it feasible for connecting communities, not just for single temporary use. Site equipment included a smallish dish on a trailer. Artag.
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| ** Satellite Internet has high latency, 10-20x that of a normal connection. [[User:Robert|Robert]] 07:22, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
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| ** I thought that was the case, but the connection was made available for use and I didn't find it a problem. Perhaps I wasn't very demanding and put any delays down to the shared use, but it was by no means as bad as I expected.
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| ** The Multiplay events manage it (though they're held at a racecourse, but they have camping.). tomwardill.
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| *** Something like a racecouse/track or airbase that's geared up for events already would be a good place to start looking [[User:Ms7821|Ms7821]] 08:02, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
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| Please add suggestions to [[Project:UK Hack Camp/Candidate sites|the list of candidate sites]]. | |
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| ==Mailing List== | | ==Mailing List== |
