Wireless setup 15+ workstations

Currently our building is wired with Cat5 put certin parts of the building are yet to be wired. I have just been informed that rather then my company spending money on wiring those parts they want to go wireless but I don't think it will save much money. Not sure exactly what I need any advise? I need a setup for 15 people. Should I go with something like a 108mb access point or a cisco airoport?

Prices vary widely depending on the building layout and construction, so there is a no immediate way of telling which would be more expensive.

If you are connecting desktops PCs, price up the cabling and use that if the price difference is not too big as it will always be faster, more secure and more reliable than wireless.

If cabling is extremely difficult and/or expensive then use two or three good quality 802.11g access points (e.g. Linksys or D-Link 'enterprise' products or even better Cisco) to spread the load among clients.

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Jeremy

Marlborough WiFi Project

Thanks for the input. I looked today and found a 3com. Was thinking that three would do the trick, will this be good enough? I saw higher end ap going for much more then 400 but for something this small of a project I think from what I understand this is good enough? Keep in mind they would be expanding in the next few months.

http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/def...spx?EDC=730939

Should do the trick fine

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Jeremy

Marlborough WiFi Project

Actually we are considering going to the next higher level and buying a Airoport 1232AG series access point. What are some pros and cons with going with some thing like the one I mention above to this Airoport access point?

Pros:

Cheaper

Cons:

Less security options
Poorer RF performance
Possibly no centralised management
It's 3Com

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Jeremy

Marlborough WiFi Project

Ok thanks for the help. I think I am leaning more for the Cisco aironet 1232ag. Can you verify if this access point has the ability to connect to a radius server on using windows 2003 server? or does it have authentication built in?

Also found this one and was wondering if you can give me some insight on this as well. It seems to just be a basic midrange user level ap.
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/specs.aspx?EDC=588065

Both of those products will support RADIUS on Windows Server 2003. I assume you are referring to IAS?

Cisco also have a product called LEAP for authentication, AFAIK this is a proprietry feature and you need to install the Cisco client manager for it to work. I'm not that up with the Cisco-specific stuff with regards to wireless so someone else might be able to give more information on that side of it.

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Marlborough WiFi Project