An expo was held recently at Southern Sun Hotel in Newlands.
The hotel provided a dedicated wi-fi signal throughout the hotel for the 3-day event
Exhibitors found that it was unuseable for their purpose which was streaming music. A dedicated streamer uses a phone or iPad for control
Like most guest WiFi networks, the hotel's routers are configured to disallow inter-device traffic between non-corporate-owned devices. This is blocked at the MAC address level. So, if you connect your laptop and a streamer to the hotel WiFi, they will have Internet access, but the routers won't forward packets between them and you can't set EQ on the streamer via the LAN, even though both devices are on the same network.
One way to overcome this to get the devices' MAC addresses whitelisted (laptop, phone & streamer) for inter-device traffic (the physical device address as opposed to assigned IP addresses). Or, you bring your own access point (WiFi transmitter), but then you won't have Internet access unless you plug into one of their switches
The hotel declined to whitelist MAC addresses and disallowed any LAN connection to their switch citing company policy
For the next event, a different solution is needed. The area required to be covered is 300 sqm on one floor, another 400 sqm on another floor and 100 sqm on a third floor
I was wondering whether to have 4 x LTE or 5G routers placed to propagate a wi-fi signal. Running cables is not permitted
Other suggestions welcomed
See sketch
The hotel provided a dedicated wi-fi signal throughout the hotel for the 3-day event
Exhibitors found that it was unuseable for their purpose which was streaming music. A dedicated streamer uses a phone or iPad for control
Like most guest WiFi networks, the hotel's routers are configured to disallow inter-device traffic between non-corporate-owned devices. This is blocked at the MAC address level. So, if you connect your laptop and a streamer to the hotel WiFi, they will have Internet access, but the routers won't forward packets between them and you can't set EQ on the streamer via the LAN, even though both devices are on the same network.
One way to overcome this to get the devices' MAC addresses whitelisted (laptop, phone & streamer) for inter-device traffic (the physical device address as opposed to assigned IP addresses). Or, you bring your own access point (WiFi transmitter), but then you won't have Internet access unless you plug into one of their switches
The hotel declined to whitelist MAC addresses and disallowed any LAN connection to their switch citing company policy
For the next event, a different solution is needed. The area required to be covered is 300 sqm on one floor, another 400 sqm on another floor and 100 sqm on a third floor
I was wondering whether to have 4 x LTE or 5G routers placed to propagate a wi-fi signal. Running cables is not permitted
Other suggestions welcomed
See sketch
