Re: [gentoo-user] wireless network advantages

[El Nino]

is it possible to use an one(1) Wireless Access Point(54Mbps) for the
whole two floors(the building)? whats all your advice?

ps: all advices are wellcome.


On 12/23/05, John Jolet <john@×××××.net> wrote:
>
> 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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