Internet connectivity is the life blood of cloud-based technologies. Outages can be so disastrous that managed internet for events is a given in most modern event budgets. Event creators who need to be sure their registrations kiosk, POS terminals or ticketing apps work know this simple fact: nothing works if the internet doesn’t. In today’s post we’ll show you how to figure out the spare capacity you’re likely to have on your event WiFi network so you can get out there and onsell those connections to sponsors and guests.
Hiring temporary managed internet can get costly, depending on the size of your event. To keep costs under control, most event creators opt to stick with providing managed internet for the essential functions and don’t choose to add a guest WiFi network. The good news is that there’s a strong chance that your existing production internet hire represents an untapped goldmine – the spare capacity on your network. Even if you just hire the coverage necessary to run your event, every connection you’re not using for essential event functions can be onsold, either to a sponsor or directly to users via a payment gateway.
While some event WiFi can run using one access point with ease, others such as festivals and conferences, usually need multiple points around a site to ensure the internet coverage is rock solid in all the important areas. Each access point can handle multiple users at once, for example, the RV Data Solutions can connect 100 users at a time, so even when all the production devices are on the network, this will often leave many connections unused. So what do you do?