I can't believe you cannot locate an existing cableway between the floors Chris!
Go visit the phone room, see how they get the Telco 50-pair to the other floor, poke a CAT5e through the gap and get 100BaseT for $5! N Nigel Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.joejava.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Weiss Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 3:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [BAWUG] Best hardware for cheap/fast bridging? We're looking to connect our office LANs on two adjacent floors using a wireless connection (the current cat-5 snaking out the window is not going to cut it when the weather _really_ gets sour). There's plenty of pages that talk about how to go about it, but I had no luck in finding actual hardware reviews. Amazon's got the Linksys WRT-54G for ~$60/ea or the WRT-54G with speedboost for $80. I know the Speedboost/G-Xtreme stuff is sloppy and vile, but is it too vile for office use? We'd REALLY like to get as much bandwidth between floors as possible. Can anyone recommend a better/cheaper/safer solution? We'd also like to keep our existing wifi access, which leads to another Q - I've heard that just the presence of 802.11b devices in an 802.11g environment will drop everyone to b speeds, is that right? Thanks in advance for any help/advice you guys can provide... -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ BAWUG's general wireless chat mailing list [unsubscribe] http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless _______________________________________________ BAWUG's general wireless chat mailing list [unsubscribe] http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
