I am planning to buy 4 Aironet 1200 APs. 1 of them will be root AP and will be positioned on the roof of the tallest building, and 3 will act as repeaters in the courtyards.
In root AP I will have only 802.11 g card (which will run b and g mode). Root AP will provide connectivity and to other APs and to the laptops. On 3 repeaters I would like to have one 802.11b card and one 802.11g. 802.11b cards on the 3 repeating 1200s will be used in AP mode and will have two 8db omnidirection antennas attached to each one of them ( I assume I attach those to that unit itself), the additional 802.11g cards will be used to link up to the root APs 802.11g card and will have directional antennas attached to them. Is it a doable configuration? What is that config. called? Part number? Or shoud I just buy 4 same 802.11G units and have one act as a root AP and 3 as repeaters and APs? Will the 1200s communicate with each other in 802.11G even if some laptops will be communicating with APs in 802.11B? Anyone has experience with that kind of set-up. I did consider Aironet 350s, but I need to use new equipment, because project is run by volunteers who are not techno geeks and if something breaks in 3 years, I still want to be able to get the replacement AP immediately. Should I go with the version that has Cisco IOS or VxWokrs? Thanks, Apollo ------------------------------------------------- Visit CARMEL MUSIC & ENTERTAINMENT website http://carmelme.com -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
