Thadd
10-25-2005, 08:42 PM
Bosses you gotta hate em. :mad: Hi all I need some advice
My boss who own's an IT Consultancy and knows nothing about computers has asked me to get our new offices wireless enabled.
Problem is that there are several rooms on the same floor he wants wireless enabled and all connecting to the same server. The walls are pretty thick.
I tried out my own wireless which is a Netgear WGT634U. I placed it in the same room the server is going to be in and got 5 bars of signal, but just outside and down the hall I get 2 bars.
He wants it done on the cheap and he wants me to do it... ugh
I need a setup that works well cause theres just so much BS your boss can take (the krypton of the wireless routers dylithium crystals cant work without a full moon and stuff like that :D ) before he asks another IT guy.
About 7 Dell laptops with Intel Pro/Wireless 2100 and 2 compaq laptops with yet to be bought wireless PCMCIA cards are going to use the wireless.
Im thinking of these setups:
Belkin Pre-N 108MB MIMO (http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=&Section_Id=202570&pcount=&Product_Id=184316)
NETGEAR WGM124 Pre-N MIMO 108 Mbps (http://www.netgear.com/products/details/WGM124.php)
Linksys WRT54GX (http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?childpagename=US%2FLayout&packedargs=c%3DL_Product_C2%26cid%3D1115416825933&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper)
Netgear WPN824 Rangemax (http://www.netgear.com/products/details/WPN824.php)
Linksys WRT54GS (http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?childpagename=US%2FLayout&packedargs=c%3DL_Product_C2%26cid%3D1126536698937&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper) & 2 Linksys WRE54G Range Expander's (http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?childpagename=US%2FLayout&packedargs=c%3DL_Product_C2%26cid%3D1115416829757&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper) placed in other rooms. And I might be able to get him to use ebay and buy some upgraded 9dbi Antenna.
If you know of any other setups which i could look into please reply. Thanks in advance for any help.
My boss who own's an IT Consultancy and knows nothing about computers has asked me to get our new offices wireless enabled.
Problem is that there are several rooms on the same floor he wants wireless enabled and all connecting to the same server. The walls are pretty thick.
I tried out my own wireless which is a Netgear WGT634U. I placed it in the same room the server is going to be in and got 5 bars of signal, but just outside and down the hall I get 2 bars.
He wants it done on the cheap and he wants me to do it... ugh
I need a setup that works well cause theres just so much BS your boss can take (the krypton of the wireless routers dylithium crystals cant work without a full moon and stuff like that :D ) before he asks another IT guy.
About 7 Dell laptops with Intel Pro/Wireless 2100 and 2 compaq laptops with yet to be bought wireless PCMCIA cards are going to use the wireless.
Im thinking of these setups:
Belkin Pre-N 108MB MIMO (http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=&Section_Id=202570&pcount=&Product_Id=184316)
NETGEAR WGM124 Pre-N MIMO 108 Mbps (http://www.netgear.com/products/details/WGM124.php)
Linksys WRT54GX (http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?childpagename=US%2FLayout&packedargs=c%3DL_Product_C2%26cid%3D1115416825933&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper)
Netgear WPN824 Rangemax (http://www.netgear.com/products/details/WPN824.php)
Linksys WRT54GS (http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?childpagename=US%2FLayout&packedargs=c%3DL_Product_C2%26cid%3D1126536698937&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper) & 2 Linksys WRE54G Range Expander's (http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?childpagename=US%2FLayout&packedargs=c%3DL_Product_C2%26cid%3D1115416829757&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper) placed in other rooms. And I might be able to get him to use ebay and buy some upgraded 9dbi Antenna.
If you know of any other setups which i could look into please reply. Thanks in advance for any help.