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

["Ross, Matt" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Wireless is very very (keep adding here) expensive.  Your NIC's and hubs
cost two to three times as much, you usually only get 11mbps unless you buy
what they used to call "leaky fiber" system, which is very insecure.  If you
have to option to rewire, do it.  Another factor, you're in an old
government/school building, I assume.  You're talking a lot of steel
building framework.  That kills wireless.  In TJ Dorm in Rolla, the north
tower was so bad that it was nearly impossible to receive radio without
hanging your antenna out the window.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Miller [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 3:20 PM
> To: MLUG discussion
> Subject: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] rewiring v. wireless in academic
> environment
> 
> 
> 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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