Like many others, my laptop has been disconnected repeatedly from the network over the two days of conference. Is this disturbing? Not really, providing you just observe the phenomenon externally while listening to the interesting speakers on stage.

So, to finalize the scientific experience, ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce one nice diagram built during LIFT 2008 by Pingplotter, and reproduced below. Basically, vertical bars reflect the time required for packets to move in the air from laptop to the Wifi antenna and back. And red bars signal packets that vanished and never returned.

Is there a lesson here? Not sure... Well, actually I have observed around me that people with a Mac seemed to suffer less than those with a PC. At least the outcome of the exercise is, for me, a strong motivation to redo the test next year with another machine running Mac OS X...

You will find a French version of this report at my blog, at http://www.yetanothercommunitysystem.com/article-4477-l-acces-wifi-a-lif...