On Dec 22, 2005, at 6:54 pm, El Nino wrote:
maybe some more info about what you want and your situation...
are you in an office? Café?
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
For my money you only go wireless when you need to.
All my home customers "need" to because they don't want cables trailing
around the house, and drilling holes isn't an option, but I've been
very pleased that one of my customers has recently moved into an office
with cable-trunking already installed.
So if the budget will allow you to have a single 24-port network switch
and a cable to each machine then you should go with it, but this is a
lot of cable and really needs to be done when the office is empty. Much
easier to install is a wireless access point and a Netgear WGPS606 for
each room - this is platform independent, so you'll never have any
driver issues. On the other hand, if you live in Europe I can sell you
12 wireless cards which are guaranteed Linux-compatible using either
the Ralink or Prism54 chipsets.
Stroller.
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