I have no first-hand information on how much time this costs
"So I'll dream up what I think the right number of people should be!"
I think part of the blame should go to the access points that kept disappearing. Someone told me this was because the AP transmitters were set to just 1 mw. If this is true, it was obviously a very big mistake.
Oh really?! Please explain why. Your words strike me as those of a volunteer for South Korea. Do I have that about right?
As long as we're bitching about the network: would it be possible to start doing some unicast streaming of sessions in the future? Access to multicast hasn't gotten significantly better the past decade, but streaming over unicast is now routine as the codecs are so much better these days, as is typical access bandwidth. I'll happily take 40 kbps MPEG-4 audio only; the video is so badly out of sync that it is unwatchable most of the time anyway.
Will you happily pay for the privilege?
Eliot