Proud Gen Xer, so this hurts. The wifi at the stadium has got to improve. I'm trying to check scores, stats, updates, etc., and rarely does the signal work. Frustrating, battery drains while trying to process, and, it's pretty much archaic. The next AD, should we get a new one, I hope is a tech nerd.
May I make a Millennial-esque complaint?
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Poor wifi is one of the causes of attendance drops across all college football. Given all the TV timeouts, it's nice to check Twitter to see what's going on across the country while at the game.
This is a common complaint at a lot of stadiums. They said for UK to do it that it would cost 6 million. Sounds ridiculous, but that is something I am clueless about.
Thats what they said when it was being discussed during our renovation. Sounds crazy, but like I said that's not something I know about.
I would have thought ten thousand fewer people in the stadium would have helped phone reception.
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it's nationwide. even some high schools have problems. I not a tech guru, thus I have no idea why this is.
Proud baby boomer here and I do not give a flip about wifi (did I spell that right?).
You have to have all the access points and a huge connection cable of handling all the traffic. Weatherproof places to store the equipment, etc...
From 2012- "Setting up hundreds of access points and paying for the service could cost more than $6 million, which is one reason why the league has been searching hard for a technology partner that could help defray some of the costs in the name of the partnership."
http://www.espn.com/blog/playbook/dollars/post/_/id/1561/patriots-latest-to-install-wi-fi-in-stadium
After doing that, other resources say that their system for 6 million is maxed out at about 40% of the stadium.
2017
"Nebraska, whose stadium holds 85,000 versus Stanford’s 50,000, needed close to 900 access points to deliver the Wi-Fi signal, which cost a little more than $5 million to install."
http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2017/03/20/In-Depth/College-wifi.aspx
From 2012- "Setting up hundreds of access points and paying for the service could cost more than $6 million, which is one reason why the league has been searching hard for a technology partner that could help defray some of the costs in the name of the partnership."
http://www.espn.com/blog/playbook/dollars/post/_/id/1561/patriots-latest-to-install-wi-fi-in-stadium
After doing that, other resources say that their system for 6 million is maxed out at about 40% of the stadium.
2017
"Nebraska, whose stadium holds 85,000 versus Stanford’s 50,000, needed close to 900 access points to deliver the Wi-Fi signal, which cost a little more than $5 million to install."
http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2017/03/20/In-Depth/College-wifi.aspx
