Max WiFi are busy installing 10 VoIP handsets and 15 Meraki APs across the site to provide a robust Internet network for London’s greatest musical festival.

This year’s Royal Windsor Horse Show has proven to be one of the best ever as a result of many changes and improvements made in the planning and operation of the event. In a report featured in this month’s Event Industry News, one such improvement is Max WiFi’s provision of communications to the event.
“Another development this year was the faster on site Internet connection supplied by Richard Hughes and his team at Max WiFi. The faster speeds were required to assist media representatives when uploading content to news sites or servers. They initially looked at ways to reduce the amount of overground temporary phone lines that were laid for the event. As a result, the specialist contractor installed 8 permanent lines within the event site, allowing for quicker set up times and fewer operational issues.”

Max WiFi are sponsoring a charity golf day on 17th June in conjunction with Round Table. The competition is being held at The South Winchester Golf Club and is in aid of Round Table’s Children’s Wish Charity that gives terminally ill children the chance to fulfil one of their dreams such as going to Disneyland.

Max WiFi are offering the chance to win a car worth £15k to the first person to get a hole in one on the 17th hole so if you fancy your chances or would simply love a day off to play golf and help make a terminally ill child’s dream come true then contact Richard Hughes on 07811 406053 or email richard@maxwifi.co.uk

We often see the outcome of underestimating the importance of a strong technical design and deployment of a WiFi network.

The article below from Geek.com sums up what happens when clients don’t control their environment.

“With all of the exciting things that happened at Google I/O, one of the most commonly heard conversations was that of network failure. There were complaints of mobile networks coming and going (more T-Mobile than anything else) or not getting signal in parts of the Moscone West. Mobile wasn’t the only complaint, and depending on the time of day it wasn’t event the loudest complaint. Google deployed a WiFi network across the entirety of the Moscone West, and included the login credentials with every pass in to the event. Despite Google’s best efforts, however, the wireless network at this event was often called some of the worst seen at any event. Why, you ask? According to Google, the problem came from portable hotspots.

5,000 people in attendance. 5,000 tech enthusiasts, most of which with smartphones capable of generating mobile hotspots. On top of that, the hundreds of press in attendance in attendance all needed access to the web during the event, and not all (or even most) of them had an ethernet port on their computer to take advantage of the wired internet provided. At least a bunch of them, however, were probably reviewing some of the new Verizon LTE MiFi units, and surely brought them with.

According to one of the Google Engineers responsible for setting up the network at I/O, there was simply no way to compete with the dozens of mobile hotspots being generated. In fact, during the second day keynote, the announcer’s warning had changed to “please disable your wireless hotspots before the presentation”.

The issue seems unsustainable. WiFi networks were really not built with the intent of handling thousands of users simultaneously. Combine that with the fact that tech enthusiasts are showing up at these events with more than a single WiFi capable device, and at the second day of I/O there was an additional 5,000 WiFi capable devices handed out, it seems there’s a need for a more elegant solution. A solution that will offer the connectivity users demand, and be able to function alongside users who will be bringing their own internet with them.

As more web connected devices begin to infiltrate the home, as children are individually given computers that will be competing with our Smart TV’s, our TIVO’s, our smartphones, tablets, and refrigerators, this problem will eventually infiltrate the home. Our web connected world is in need of a fix, whatever that fix might be.”

Many thanks for the article to the guys and girls at www.geek.com

“We hired Max WiFi to provide temporary communications for our Destination Truth Live event in Ireland in March. I would definitely recommend Max WiFi. All of the staff were friendly and good natured even when they had to roll with the punches. They were a pleasure to work with during a stressful project” – Shara Zoll, Vice President of Operations, NBC Universal

“I was very impressed by Max WiFi – particularly their flexibility (allowing us to piggyback on their lines reducing our costs) and ease of doing business with” – Julian Rowntree, e-Government Division, City of Edinburgh Council

Max WiFi are really pleased to be providing all comms at this year’s Moon Walks and Sun Walk in London and Edinburgh.  Richard Hughes says “we always enjoy working with charitable causes…it adds an extra dimension to what we are doing”.  For more information on the events.

Max WiFi are working in Ireland at the Ducketts Grove Castle with NBC and the SyFy channel on a live TV show called Destination Truth.

We have provided an extremely large WiFi network allowing the show producers to provide a live web based RFID tag solution to show viewers where the Ghost Hunters are in the castle.

The network is using over 36 access points and two wireless controllers and took over 4 days to install and survey.

Max WiFi have recently changed access point provider to a truly flexible and forward thinking manufacturer. Meraki AP’s are highly featured and offer a high level of management and monitoring to our technicians.

“This addition to our equipment is a real asset allowing us to offer high end services and solutions usually only available on much more expensive equipment” says Richard Hughes.