Editing MayFirst2012NYCCrateDeployment (section)

= Conclusions =

Healthy use of the network while "on the move" around 16:30 was surprising.
Providing mobile/roaming connectivity isn't a short-term priority for the FNF,
but might be possible in certain situations.

We did little to promote the existance or goals of the network to users,
because we thought a captive portal would be frustrating and not in the spirit
of open access. Using a domain or short URL as the SSID would have allowed
curious users to look us up.

It is (obviously) important to get the radios up above head height for this
sort of deployment, thus the usual "tower" structure. It was equally important
to keep the mobile directional antennas at least relatively fixed with respect
to users; rotating the crate even a small angle could cut off many connected
devices in a crowd, which is a very frustrating user experience.

It seems like the OpenWRT router was more accessible to user's mobile devices
compared to the 2.4GHz NanoStation; this may have been due to accidental
misconfiguration or confusion, more lab testing to confirm is called for. 

Overall, in a very crowded chaotic environment, we provided about 250MB of up
and down data transfer, averaging to around 100kbps up and down throughput. It
is encouraging that users made relatively symmetric use of the network!