Ok. > It is necessary to know more details. > What speeds?
It will be good to have 100Mbit/s. > What architecture? > What distances? > Etc... There are more then ten bulidings. In one of them will be at least 30 PC's in the another between 10 and 20. The other buildings will have one or two PC's. The distances between adjacent buildings are 15, 20 max 30 meters. Would be the network very loaded, for 50, 60 PC's, if they all will be on the same network? I mean UTP with many switches. I was thinking about making subnets and using routers between them to divide the traffic, but Cisco routers are found expensive and using computers for routing is said to be not reliable enough(the hardware) by the owner. So, like in every case I guess, the network should be very reliable and the expenses should be minimized :-). Is a number of let's say 60 hosts generaly high for an Ethernet LAN, with switches? What kind of cable can be used outdoor for connecting the buildings? UTP will work? Or STP is better outdoor? I guess Coax would be the best for this but that would allow only 10Mbit/s. 100Mbit/s would be better... The bigest concern however is an office that is 2km away. Probably it will connect through dialup(or leased line if permanent connection is necessary). Is there any other not very expensive solution to give him a faster connection? Thanks a lot, Tamas
