Yeah, the wifi of the bar is usually the weakest part of the whole thing. I had a bar that had the wifi signal coming from their office which was directly behind the bar. This meant the signal had to go through all the refrigerators and bottles on the wall...needless to say the signal was crap. I managed to convince them to drill a hole through the wall and connect a wifi hotspot in front. I ran a new Ethernet line to the front of the bar through that hole and put in a 2nd wifi spot for me to use. I found a good wifi router on craigslist for $25 and now it's permanently there. The signal is sooo much better and I can actually use it. Occasionally I do run into a problem with a bar's internet going down and I have to use the hot spot on my smartphone. It's rooted so I don't have to pay extra for the hot spot on it (don't tell my cell phone company
). I just fire it up and as long as I got good cell phone signal I can make it work for the night.
If Justin is not planning on hosting his own server karaoke books server, I wouldn't mind seeing this web app be on it's own, so it can be transferred to a hosted site. All we'd have to do is connect to our site via VDJ administration and have it retrieve all the requests. I believe even the vdjdb7.dat file can be transferred which is my understanding the file that holds the karaoke and music database. In my case it's about 14MB which not a small file, but it's not that big either. I got about 90,000 files between karaoke and mp3s. It can probably be uploaded automatically at the beginning of the night or just went it's needed. If Justin were to do this, we wouldn't need the VPN.
