Extending our network accross the road

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What would be the most cost effective solution to extend our company network to an office block accross the road?

We have to accomodate 45 personnel in the new building (building has existing network sockets).

Our IT guys are proposing a BridgeWave 1Gbps 60Ghz wireless link @ R175,000. I've no experience with this, so any advice would be GREATLY appreciated.

PS> We have to have this up and running within two weeks!
 
R175k ouch!!

Get some Mikrotik routers on both sides. Done. <R10k - Can be up and running by the end of day today. Call your local Wireless supplier. www.miro.co.za should suffice.
 
carruden, "R175,000! ouch" is what I thought as well! But I have no expertise to challenge them by. Which mikrotik routers will get the job done?
 
Any companies out there that would like to propose a solution?
 
What kind of throughput do u need? (what type of work do they do?)
 
45 guys using e-mail, some internet (not much) and some business systems (e.g. SAP) and printing. A 100mb link should be MORE than enough...
 
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Is Mikrotik workable in bad weather conditions?
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Definitely, like you said, its across the road so unless you have a hurricane coming your way or some street kids throwing bricks at it, there's not much that prevent it from working.

With Mikrotik you looking at about 54mbps... add on Turbo mode and it will be bumped up to 108Mbps ( unless my understanding of Turbo-Mode in incorrect )

Edit: Besides at R175k, rather have like a stack of your guys silently in the night, dig up the road, drop in 2 or 3 pvc pipes, cover up and bugger off. Even then you probly easily shave off 100k
 
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I have very limited knowledge of mikrotik as well. From what I understand you can run one router with 2 radios on either side. The radios then only deal with either Send or Receive.

I think you'll have to post in the Wifi & Wisp section for the experts to comment..
 
What length does the link need to be? There are many factors that influence such a decision.

But R175 000-00 is ridiculous.
 
OMG! R 175 K! I nearly fell off my chair. Like everyone said, give the wug guys a call and install some MikroTik routers and some grids. For R 10 K you should get 2 links running in parallel for added reliability. As acidrain said, for that sort of money you should give Dark Fibre Africa a call. Get some fibre installed under the road.
 
sn3rd said:
What length does the link need to be? There are many factors that influence such a decision.
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h4ppyfish said:
What would be the most cost effective solution to extend our company network to an office block accross the road?
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Can't be more than 300m unless its one moerse big road, or it infact not just across the road.

I'd go wireless if i was you. If you worried about throuput, can always split the new office network in two and run them each on a different wireless connection. If you can't split the network, one link is more than sufficient.

Besides (and I might be wrong here but this is what I would be thinking if i was an IT guys ) those IT guys probably don't care much for money, they just want to have their turn at some new technology... Expensive technology to an IT guy is like heroin to a junkie. :o
 
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175K Good Lord!!! Are they nuts!

We have a few wireless links teamed together to give us 70MB/s - over 5 km's or so. Using mikrotik.

Tell the IT guys to take a flying leap. Depending on the range you need should be from 10-15k. Should take a day to two to setup.
 
Well "across the road" can mean different things to different people. Some of my clients have said "across the road" not meaning DIRECTLY opposite. Possible a couple hundred metres down? And usually the buildings aren't right next to the road. And sometimes they have other buildings in between. Or other sources of interference.
 
You say maybe a few hundred meters, and i say not more than 300m ( which would be a good number for a few hundred ).

Anything more than that is not across the road in any language. If thats the case then the term across the road should not be used as that would be feeding us wrong information which could lead to an incorrect solution.
 
A customer of mine uses a radiolink, line of sight 3km, 54Mb, to connect two locations. No problems. Under good conditions the link can go up 30km.
IIRC it cost them under R10k.

PM mee for supplier details.
 
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