On Dec 22, 2005, at 7:12 PM, Lares Moreau wrote:
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
Antoine
Thank You Antoine for your questions
For this situation, all you really need is small Switch at each room
connected to the computers in the room. And connect all those switches
to a main switch which is connected to the internet/router/FileServer.
I would agree, except insofar as the costs of wiring are
prohibitive. I have installed wireless networking quite a bit for
clients where the costs of wiring were higher than the costs of
wireless networking equipment, even with monthly wep key changes, or
quarterly wpa key changes.
I would recommend against Wireless for office situations due the
diffuclty in securing it.
there's not a lot of difficutling securing wireless....just some
tedium. even wep is secure, if you change the keys often enough. As
for wirelss being slower....sure, i've only got 54 mps from this
laptop to my switch...but i've only got 3 mbps from the switch to the
internet, so what? if you're not doing computer/computer file
transfers of large size, who really needs 100 mbps? I've been doing
network administration for 16 years and, with the exception of
certain graphic artists I could name, 99% of my users have not
exceeeded 10 mbps of ethernet. much less the 54 of 802.11g.....
(okay, I KNOW you don't actually get to push that much data, but even
at practical throughputs, you exceed 10).
-Lares
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