Hopefully encrypted there is an organisation in Western Sydney that uses wireless networking without encryption. They are a distribution centre. Would hate to see someone get to their databases and screw up their inventory.
> Campus computing? Think 'WIRELESS' now ! > > From: "Phil Scarratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To the network guru's out there > > > > I am working at a school that is currently expanding. There are some new > > buildings being added to the campus (almost finished) that are now being > > wired. The question is what is the best way to wire to an existing > > network, considering the following: > > > > 1. The main existing building (call it the library) houses 3 network > > switches, along with 2 servers (firewall and other) and the adsl > > connection. In this building there is also 1 lab (15 machines) and 15 > > library machines on the network. A few admin computers and links from > > staff rooms in other buildings also come here - nothing else major though. > > 2. The new building will house the lab (will be moved). Library machines > > will stay put. The lab being in the new building will mean that there > > will be fairly heavy traffic through to the library server. > > 3. ADSL connection is not likely to move. > > > > I am thinking of mounting a secondary switch(s) in the new building, > > with an uplink to the existing network, however, what sort of uplink > > should it be: > > > > 1. Is it worth putting fibre in? > > 2. What does it take to make a gigabit network instead of 100Mbit? > > 3. Any other suggestions? > > > > TIA > > Fil > > > > -- > > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
