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by rteo30

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Does anyone know how realiable for the wireless network in a small office environment with about 2 w2k servers and 28 workstations? Some work area will be in the plant or warehouse area.

Any suggestion or advice will be appreciated.

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by erikbutler

we have been experimenting with the LinkSys Air Wan. the device is pretty straigt forward and easy to set up. The main drawback is that it only works on the Class C subnet adress scheme of course you can set it up as a gateway to another network configuration. The new problem is that the security on 802.11 has been severly compromised. It has been found that the entire 40 bit encryption key can be deciphered in about 15 minutes which is scary if the info you are using is real confidential. Well the rest aside the devices are nice and work extremely well in a laptop as well. If you need anything email me. Erikbutler@yahoo.com

by legj1

Also check out Wavelan or Orinoco devices. We run Wavelans between two remotes and they work very well...and at a limited cost. They have worked for us. We wanted Fiber, but had no conduit between the two remotes and had to make due.

by jsloan

The main thing you need to consider is security. How sesitive is the data that is going to be on that lan. Anyone that has a wireless card in there laptop, could access the information if they really wanted to.

Some of the wireless access points handle security different than others (i.e. some only use WEP for security), so make sure you research before you buy.

Performance should not really be a factor unless you are streaming lots of audio and video on your lan.

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