is it possible to use an one(1) Wireless Access Point(54Mbps) for the whole two floors(the building)? whats all your advice?
ps: all advices are wellcome. On 12/23/05, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 22, 2005, at 7:12 PM, Lares Moreau wrote: > > > > >> office (2 floors) > >> > >>> Can you drill through walls? > >> yes! > >> > >>> Are they all in the same room? > >> no, several rooms(7) + 2 floors > >> > >>> Why are you networking them? > >> sharing Internet + other normal data sharing stuff > >> > >>> What sort of traffic do you expect between them? > >> only for Internet surfing + other normal office file sharing > >> > >>> Antoine > >> Thank You Antoine for your questions > > > > For this situation, all you really need is small Switch at each room > > connected to the computers in the room. And connect all those switches > > to a main switch which is connected to the internet/router/FileServer. > > > I would agree, except insofar as the costs of wiring are > prohibitive. I have installed wireless networking quite a bit for > clients where the costs of wiring were higher than the costs of > wireless networking equipment, even with monthly wep key changes, or > quarterly wpa key changes. > > I would recommend against Wireless for office situations due the > > diffuclty in securing it. > > there's not a lot of difficutling securing wireless....just some > tedium. even wep is secure, if you change the keys often enough. As > for wirelss being slower....sure, i've only got 54 mps from this > laptop to my switch...but i've only got 3 mbps from the switch to the > internet, so what? if you're not doing computer/computer file > transfers of large size, who really needs 100 mbps? I've been doing > network administration for 16 years and, with the exception of > certain graphic artists I could name, 99% of my users have not > exceeeded 10 mbps of ethernet. much less the 54 of 802.11g..... > (okay, I KNOW you don't actually get to push that much data, but even > at practical throughputs, you exceed 10). > > > -Lares > > -- > > Lares Moreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | LRU: 400755 http:// > > counter.li.org > > lares/irc.freenode.net | > > Gentoo x86 Arch Tester | ::0 Alberta, > > Canada > > Public Key: 0D46BB6E @ subkeys.pgp.net | Encrypted Mail > > Preferred > > Key fingerprint = 0CA3 E40D F897 7709 3628 C5D4 7D94 483E 0D46 BB6E > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- ... "The future lies ahead." _______________________ < Have you mooed today? > ---------------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo) \_______ (__) \ )\/\ | |-----w | | | | | 2.6.14-gentoo-r5-sinhalese-r1.0 (((o)))~--~--~--~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Proud to be a Sinhalese. SINHALESE ARE GENIUSES OF IRRIGATION http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~sydney/sinhales.htm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list