It's an Arena now, they realised a while ago that the Dome wasn't at all Dome-like.

EFTPOS down is a terrible look though, and i'd be interested to know the cause. It must surely be a LAN issue, and a costly and embarrassing time for it to occur.

Basing your opinion of Adelaide on the eftpos machine at 1 venue says more about Melbournians than it does Adelaide IMO.

How about the female Melbourne fan who wore sunnies throughout the whole game...should we base our opinions of all Melbournians based on her?

I think you have the wrong thread, anon.

May I direct you to this: https://www.hoops.com.au/forum/42920-nbl-grand-final-game-3264-pre-game-fan-banter/

I base my opinion of Melbourne fans solely on the behaviour of Brendan Fevola.

But I digress.

Perhaps we won't mention the behavior of any former Adelaide afl players as an assessment of Adelaide.

Its actually the scout arena guys, and you know their motto. ...... cash only

Dehydrate the opposition fans. It's all part of the bigger picture

Yeah I've had that issue at Adelaide Arena a few times, they need to get their act together

Years ago, when the South Dragons co existed with the Tigers, Vodafine Arena brought in eftpos and it sucked badly. Your ice cream melted before you even got the third attempt on your eftpos and its winter.

For possibly the biggest game of the year, they need to rectify but, cash is all powerful. The fault is really on the user. You've become too accustomed to swiping your card for everything. Cash is still relevant

I'm not sure it was an issue because of phones. I heard the employees talk about WiFi issues also. Regardless, it was a joke. Especially when one girl serving drinks was holding the EFTPOS above her head shaking it with a card in it for about 5 minutes. If it’s a phone issue, then how do AFL stadiums handle it?

Every mobile tower has only a certain number of connections. When that limit has been reached, phones will try to connect to another tower further away, if available. Most eftpos terminals are WiFi now as it is a lot cheaper than dedicated land lines. They are competing for the same connections as everyone in the building who is texting, updating Facebook, live chatting, steaming etc.

The large AFL venues, such as Adelaide Oval, MCG, etc have upgraded WiFi capacity, either WiFi through the mobile network or dedicated "Free WiFi" on site. These stadium are used all year round so the investment by the Mobile companies is recouped.

Adelaide Arena is in the middle of suburbia and only for the 14 home games plus a few finals has the numbers there to stretch the mobile providers. Any upgrade done by the Mobile providers would not get a meaningful return on their investment, hence the struggle to get a connection at times with large crowds.

There is an article published in The Advertiser on February 25 2015 which discusses this issue and how it is being resolved at Adelaide Oval and interstate venues.

If they're all 3G EFTPOS machines then you're just asking for trouble.

In the long term Basketball will be played in the city ,
next to Adelaide oval at Memorial Drive , with the Adelaide Crows owning the 36ers.....

" It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home. "
Charles Dickens .

Camel31

Adelaide does have a Dickensian feel about it though. Sort of Bleak House meets Great Expectations.

Although Dickens never wrote about serial killers and bodies in barrels as far as I know.