Random track question...

[SarahLyndsey]

I know this is totally a longshot but Loudon doesn't get wireless internet does it? I've seen laptops up there but I figure you're all just tuning?

[Crash Dummy Denno]

im wrong




that eye still haunts me

[Puppet]

I think you can get it at the end of the north garages. You may have to have your own router to plug in, but the cable is there. Although, if i'm not mistaken again, I'm pretty sure someone who pits in the garages brings one each weekend.

[Pittenger5]

I get perfect wireless in the north garage, and right next to the checkered flag restaurant where all the cars park for the North Garages

[Awesome]

There isn't open wireless at the track. There is wired internet in the tech garage, and some race weekends someone brings a router.

[Doc]

As they have said, you can get it, you just have to find a good spot.

We should try to run a remote out to the 1a area.

[Kurlon]

If people are up for it, it wouldn't take many wireless capible laptops to setup a community mesh to cover all of Loudon. The software is free, laptops that are capable are cheap.

[Kurlon]

Meraki

Cheap option, $50 bucks a node, easy cheasy conf, plug one in the garage, random people bring theirs with them and fire them up in the pits. A mesh forms, and as long as there are enough nodes to cover the area, you get access. More nodes, better access.

[Doc]

That is cool if it works... How far away from another laptop can you be?

Heck, I'd buy a couple to hand out to people so I could get service out in 1a.

[Kurlon]

The outdoor range is listed as 300 to 700 feet per node.

[13]

Meraki

Cheap option, $50 bucks a node, easy cheasy conf, plug one in the garage, random people bring theirs with them and fire them up in the pits. A mesh forms, and as long as there are enough nodes to cover the area, you get access. More nodes, better access.

Good call, I vote that everyone do it! Except me. I'm broke.

[Doc]

I wonder if we could but em on the Speaker poles?

We should take up a collection...

[Doc]

I am gonna make a new thread to drum up interest (or intrest I can never remember which is which)

[Kurlon]

Ooooh, then we could setup some cheap wireless webcams and stream races live!

[Doc]

Now your thinking!!

[SarahLyndsey]

it would be nice if i didnt have to hike down to the garages! i definitely vote yes on a router around the 1a area where i am!

[Doc]

would you back that up with a little cash?

This might not happen until next year...

[SarahLyndsey]

maybe... i dont really NEED it i just WANT it haha ... im sure im gonna be busy all day anyways just thought i might be able to get in a little schoolwork while im up there but then again who wants to do work?!??!

[Loun]

I vote that you put this as your signature line

"maybe... i dont really NEED it i just WANT it "

And if there was internet up there im sure 98% of the guys on here would just be surfing porn

[CMG241]

I have a Sprint PCS card in my laptop and it works Ok at Loudon. I'm there tomorrow

[Trackday Guru]

NHIS allows certain individuals to have access to their (NHIS'S) network, and those people when they are at the track set up in the north garage (usually), which is why so many of you have had the access in the garage area in the past. Most notable person with this access is Carl McAllister.

NHIS does not allow everyone this access. If you have to ask why they don't allow everyone this access then ask yourself this question: If you have the amount of people that are at NHIS for a weekend in your house for a weekend, would allow all of them on your computer?

The easiest and most convenient way to get the the internet at the track is to buy a wireless card like some have done as stated above.