Hi Folks,

I've been trying to learn about options for enabling conference presenters

to wirelessly hook into projectors and do various types of presentations,

including, but not limited to, PowerPoint slides and browser-based webinars.

I live in a fairly small community and there are no local experts on this

topic. I have been working with my usual vendor to try to understand how

this works but they aren't fully versed in this technology and I haven't

been able to get a definitive grasp on the issues.

If anyone here has experience with this stuff, your help would be very much

appreciated. Here's what I want to do:

1. We're converting a large space to a hotel-style conference center. It

will have movable walls to enable up to 5 different room configurations. I

want one projector for each of the three small rooms, one projector in a

different orientation for the full room, and the ability to gang two or

more projectors together to handle once source as needed.

2. I want to share my network's internet connection to any presenter,

whether they use my laptops OR bring their own.

3. I do NOT want to be dependent on supplying my own laptops because I

don't want to be in the position of guaranteeing that I will have every

possible version of PowerPoint available to presenters who bring in their

own slides. Naturally, this also means that the system has to work without

requiring any special connectivity software on a laptop beyond the standard

wireless driver.

4. These projectors will need to be ceiling mounted, so plugging a USB

stick into them is not practical. I have heard of projectors with remotes

into which you can plug in a USB stick and execute a PowerPoint

presentation without a laptop. I would like to enable this functionality if

possible **in the context of my other requirements**.

5. My best understanding of how this stuff has to work is that the

projectors have to be installed as network devices (like printers), and

there has to be a specialized WAP to connect laptops to projectors. It is

unclear to me whether I need one WAP per projector or there can be a

centralized "routing" (for lack of a better term) system for this. (I

cannot, as I understand it, install anything that the network would

recognize as a router because it would conflict with the existing domain

router and hose the network.) Naturally, laptops should not be forced to

join my network domain to be able to connect to a projector that is on the

network.

6. Somehow the wireless connection between laptop and projector has to both

share my network's internet connection with the laptop, and enable

communication with the projector. How can this be done?

I have visited websites for various equipment vendors but I have yet to

find a simple explanation of how the technology works and what is required

to meet my specific needs. I do not want to subject myself to sales pitches

for particular pieces of equipment, I want to understand how this

technology works in general and what my options are.

Please, educate me. How do I accomplish what I want, or is it even possible?

Thanks.

Ken Dibble

www.stic-cil.org

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