Good Wireless Solutions?

[Necrometal]

4 locations each up to a mile apart....

Ive found some ideas, and something that looks like it will work, but I wanted to see if anyone else had gotten some experience with this.

[Six Eyed Smily]

have you looked at wan links?
it does depend on what you want it for, however. if you want to link several separate offices each needing a 12 gigabit throughput you may need different solutions than if you want to link a couple of friends houses together for an occasional game of counterstrike....

[Necrometal]

Unfortunately not all the sites have LOS, as I found a pretty sweet laser system that supports 100mb full duplex. As such I have to settle for the wireless cone type of transmissions.

Basically there are 30+ offsite clients that must have access to the domain, exchange and our netware server.

Were also thinking about setting up mobile remote sites that would be able to tap into our database when the need arises. But thats a whole nother ball of wax and probaly wont happen this fiscal year.

Motorola makes an interesting setup, Ive been looking at.

I just like to get alot of opinions before I settle on a choice.

[Six Eyed Smily]

ive heard of people using satalite for this kind of thing, but i have nil expereince with sat systems.

if in each office you just set up a server with high speed internet link, you gain networking, and faster internet for each ofice than if you all shared one superfast one at base... depending on the state of the network.
such a setup would fa****iate the mobile remote sites as well.

as for wireless, its perfectly doable, but personally i would require that it have either substatial speed or cost advantages over internet linking, as internet linking is now a lot more secure than it used to be. additionally, wireless, can in theory be adversly affected by weather conditions, or so i have heard.

[Six Eyed Smily]

????!!!!!! why is part of
f a c i l i t a t e
blanked out??

[DocPC]

Originally posted by Six Eyed Smily
????!!!!!! why is part of
f a c i l i t a t e
blanked out??

Probably because you spelled it "fellatio".......

[Six Eyed Smily]

? i think ive missed something... fellatio???

i think i must have missed out the first 'i'

*sigh* whatever happened to my typing skills

[Necrometal]

facilitate...such a dirty word

Thank for the opinion, we looked into trenching t1s for all our remote offices, but as it stands right now its just not cost effective when compared with the cost of setting up a wireless solution.

Ive gotten some pretty quotes from some local places about setting up a few towers for us and doing point to point, based on 802 technology. There would be a singular tower at our most central location, and an add on they offer would allow roaming access to the network provided they are within range.

The monly costs of 4 t1s outweighs what we would benefit from it. Our remote locations really do not need any internet access at all. Its really just a perk for them. They just need to be able to get to their exchange boxes, and connect to our domain.

I found out today to, that were going to have some extra cash to throw around before the fiscal year ends for us (october)

Pretty sure we are going to retire this old compaq proliant we have running novell and upgrade to something a little more beefy.

Which transitions to my next topic above

[commander]

We're looking at wireless now as well. One of the main things to look at as well is security. Having someone crack your wireless lan with a Pringles can is not something anyone would want. We have 2 remote sites that are hooked up through a VPN connection. Right now we have Nortel switches setup on 3mb ADSL links with a non-split tunnel so that all traffic, internet included, runs through the main site. The link is nice & fast, so domain login works as well as being at the main site. We will be converting to Cisco pretty soon, as we've just done a major upgrade to the network to Cisco equipment. You might want to price out a VPN solution for your remoter sites, it will at least give you some other options for connection.