RE: Best hardware for cheap/fast bridging?

I can't believe you cannot locate an existing cableway between the floors
Chris!

Go visit the phone room, see how they get the Telco 50-pair to the other
floor, poke a CAT5e through the gap and get 100BaseT for $5!

N 


Nigel Ballard
[email protected]
http://www.joejava.com

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Chris Weiss
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 3:40 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [BAWUG] Best hardware for cheap/fast bridging?

We're looking to connect our office LANs on two adjacent floors using a
wireless connection (the current cat-5 snaking out the window is not going
to cut it when the weather _really_ gets sour). There's plenty of pages that
talk about how to go about it, but I had no luck in finding actual hardware
reviews.

Amazon's got the Linksys WRT-54G for ~$60/ea or the WRT-54G with speedboost
for $80. I know the Speedboost/G-Xtreme stuff is sloppy and vile, but is it
too vile for office use? We'd REALLY like to get as much bandwidth between
floors as possible. Can anyone recommend a better/cheaper/safer solution?

We'd also like to keep our existing wifi access, which leads to another Q -
I've heard that just the presence of 802.11b devices in an 802.11g
environment will drop everyone to b speeds, is that right?

Thanks in advance for any help/advice you guys can provide...


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