Wireless LAN's??

[Radical Dreamer]

We use wireless at our school and the only problems that we have is moron users reloading their machines and not knowing how to set up the network for their machine. Other than that its great, we run on a T1 and average 100-200KBps on downloads with the CATV and the wireless average 120-200KBps. We are using linksys for the hubs and linksys with the cards. Just be sure that you dont put the access point right next to something that will cause interference such as central air unit, fridge, etc, really just any large appliances.

[Low Level Owl]

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by savagegerbil:
[QB$500!!! I wouldnt hire someone to do it for $100! Why not do it yourself? It's very easy![/QB]</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I would do it myself if I were living in my own house. But being as I don't own the house, I'd rather let pro's make holes in the walls.....

[***steve***]

I dont see how you could have any problems unless you are using inferior cards. I work at an ISP that does wireless because we live in a rural area and that is the only way to get decent bandwidth around here. We have some links that go for kilometers with special antannas, but you can still drive down the street a few blocks and still be in range. If you want to run cable and that is easier then do it! Its cheaper. If you have a laptop and want to roam around the house then you would want a wireless bridge and a card for your laptop and you should have no problem. If you get a good card(like an orionoco) then you sould be able to get a few hundred feet away from your house and still get a decent signal.

[Major Kong]

I believe the biggest problem we were experiencing is our location being very close to Fort Richardson and Elmendorf Air Force Base (just down the road - real close). Somehow we were getting quite a bit of background noise and interference. Several calls to D-Link support was absolutely worthless. Another problem was the D-Link Access Point would not reset itself when it lost the signal. After the fact I was told the LinkSys and Intel units were better, but knew it would be cheaper to go the cable route. Since I'm not in any condition right now to drill the holes I just hired the original house builder $50 to drill me some strategically placed holes.