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> If they caught you using your own, they would block you and shut down your booth at the convention.

Sounds to me like an unlawful tie-in, in violation of the anti-trust laws.

Just get one of those routers with 4G/LTE uplink and then go back to old school ethernet cords.

Get few of them, borrow to neighbouring stands, charging fairly for data usage, sell them after event. Congratulations - you just made few friends, some good karma and flipped off convention organizers, all at the same time.

Given the shitstorm they threw when they caught me carring a small mat to my booth (turns out I need to pay $100 and wait an hour for one of them to carry it), I can imagine what they'd do if they found cables between booths...

I don't picture this idea ending well.

Ahh, teamsters making sure people have reasons to dislike unions.

I'd post my rant about teamsters here, but I'm afraid I'm not a teamster so I'm not allowed to do that.

Tell it to the Teamsters...

Labor unions have an explicit antitrust exemption.

Do like me. Don't go to conferences.

Besides, I much prefer spending time with my son reading Asterix the Gaul comic books.

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