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On 09/08/2004 10:33 AM, Amit Sharma wrote: | Hi, | | i have to setup LAN for my new office for 30 | workstations. | | i am not very sure whether i should go for wireless | network 11b/11g or for normal wired LAN (10/100mbps). | The server room anyway will be on wired LAN only.
Hi Amit, I had recently set up a campus wide WLAN for a business school and also have a mixed LAN in my office as well as home. In terms of reliability and speed, the wireless does not stand any chance in front of a wired LAN. However largely it depends on your network requirement. 802.11b seems slow but if you just browsing the internet and your uplink is less than an MB then its fine. You do have the ability to move your PCs/Laptops around freely in a wireless network (obviously provided there is signal). The cost of the wireless LAN may seem a little higher upfront but if you get proper structured cabling done by a decent vendor you may actually end up paying more for your wired LAN. You may want to take a look at some propreitory speed standards (DLINK has one and so has SMC) which speed up the WLAN even more, but they will only work with their own brand.
I would suggest a mix of Wired and Wireless, use cat6 or atleast cat5e for your wiring so you can move up to gigabit over time. For your wireless i would suggest a hybrid wlan access point (one that will support B along with either A or G). Most centrino notebooks come with B wireless and unless you ensure all wireless clients are of higher spec, it wont really help would it.
For linux, there is limited support for WLAN especially in the case of centrino notebooks. That said, i use a centrino notebook running SuSE 9.1 and drivers from ipw2100.sourceforge.net , without any issues :) . In case of your desktops, since you would be buying wireless cards anyway, look under the hardware list for your linux distribution and find a compatible wlan card.
- - Ankur.
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