[MLUG - DISCUSSION] rewiring v. wireless in academic environment

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

What do you all think?...  We have a mixed network of some cat 5 and
something else (maybe cat 2) in our building and the network runs at 10
Mbps.  Too slow!  So we want to go faster, but the cat 2 accounts for
something like half of our wiring and it isn't up to spec for 100 Mbps.

So the question is this:  Is it worth it to do a lot of cat 5 wiring to
replace the old cat 2 when we could just go to a wireless solution?  What
are the costs/benefits of wireless?

Is it easy to solve the security issues with wireless?  I know that people
have been logging into networks from their cars outside of office
buildings.  I suppose encryption and authentication are needed and are not
too hard to implement.  Are wireless systems expensive to install?  Every
machine will need a new wireless adapter of some sort.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

Mike

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