Presence and IntComm WG

[Deke Kassabian <>]

Interesting, thanks.

How was Haiyan able to report "Windows" as opposed to "A MAC address
with a prefix typically associated with a Windows PC"?

Did these numbers come from browser identification rather than
hardware address identification?  Some other trick?

^Deke

--On Wednesday, October 22, 2003 11:44 AM -0400 Ben Teitelbaum 
<> wrote:

> Dikran Kassabian 
> <>
>  writes:
>
> > > > Ben, can we get a report on how the wireless worked from the people
> > > > running it?
> > >
> > > I'll ask.  I'm curious too.
> >
> > Would it also be possible to get an estimate, based on MAC address
> > prefixes, of how many Macintosh computers were registered to use
> > the wireless network, out of the total registered?
> >
> > I suspect that within this community the percentage is WAY higher
> > than in the general public.  But hey, I could be wrong.
>
> Almost 1/6th Macintosh at the Member Meeting.  I think their share of
> the PC market is somewhere around 4%, so yes, WAY higher!  Thanks to
> Haiyan.
>
> -- ben
>
> > Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 09:23:58 -0500 (EST)
> > From: Haiyan Li 
> > <>
> > To: Doug Pearson 
> > <>
> > cc: Michael K Guinn 
> > <>
> > Subject: Re: [Dikran Kassabian] [WG-PIC:361] Re: FMM demo notes
> >
> >
> > Yes, all the data still exist, here are the wireless reg summary:
> >
> > Total devices: 624
> > Macintosh:     100
> > Windows:       486
> > Other:          38
> >
> > And there are only 11 devices using Manual Reg.
> >
> > Let me know if you need more info.
> >
> > Haiyan



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Deke Kassabian,  Senior Technology Director
Information Systems and Computing, Networking and Telecommunications
University of Pennsylvania   <URL:http://www.net.isc.upenn.edu/~deke>

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