Office Network Renovation

[Charles Freo]

Good day to all,

im new to network connections though i know some things about it.. for the past 4 years of our company i put up a small wired connection for our office for server / printing uses ( no interconnection ) and now i want to renovate our office and remove the wires with our network connection..

what are the primary needs to set up these wireless connection replacing our existing system

thank you

 

[bill001g]

Unless you have a tiny office that can be served from a single wireless device you will still have wires to all the radio devices.

Unlike wired where ever user has dedicated bandwidth wireless shared. So now you have the massive problem of figuring out how much traffic users are using and where they are located in relationship to each other. Wireless does not share well. The vendors will try to tell you their AP will support 50 users and other crazy numbers until you read the fine print and see they recommend no more than 10 "light" bandwidth users. When you talk a engineering users (or your video streamers if you allow that abuse) you likely can only get 3 per device.

This is a massive project in most cases. I would add a couple of wireless AP to your existing network for those devices that don't have ethernet ports...ie some tablets. It will be much more stable to continue to use wired for any device that can.

Just because it is trendy and cool does not mean wireless is the best option for a business.

 

[jeff-j]

I agree with Bill001g, if you already have the wire in place keep it. I always recommand to my clients to plug into the network if they can. The connection is much more reliable and faster than wireless. Wireless is nice to have but if everything is already wired I would just leave it and add the wireless to the network. Like I say if it ain't broke don't fix it.