Office wireless

[greggpb]

What would you guys recommend for strong wireless at my office probally 20 users..

I dont just want to buy some router I would normally have at home and it become all flaky when there are to many users.. ?

any suggestions ?

 

[MickeyD]

What's your budget?

Multi-storey or single floor?

How many brick walls to pass through?

What incoming connection do you have?

 

[greggpb]

sorry mate that was super vague...


-200m2 open office...probally 10X20m
-Single floor
-no walls
- About 20 clients wireless n
- not sure what you mean by incomming connection but we have a gigabit lan and 4mb adsl.
the wireless is mostly for the laptop guys to acces internest and the local servers at the office.

Budget is as little as posibble.. gotta be cheaper that running the cable.. so under a couple of grand..

 

[Sinbad]

To be honest I'd run cable. Wireless throughput declines seriously as you put more clients on it.

 

[greggpb]

To be honest I'd run cable. Wireless throughput declines seriously as you put more clients on it.

We have cable already.. but need a couple more conections and wirefile would give us flexiblity for the non-heavy users.. plus ut adds tablet and phones to the mix for some of our executives

 

[agentrfr]

Any decent Wireless Access Point will work. Cable that to the ads router and disable DHCP on the WAP. If you need to extend, you can always have more WAPs working in tandem. It'll cost around R800 for a good WAP.

 

[PsyWulf]

Long as they won't be running big files through the wireless concurrently it should be okay,every extra connection divvies up the limited bandwidth available,but with 20 people in that size area you should be fine for mail/intranet/web/documents

Buy 2-3 APs and set them up on different frequency band channels with the same Wifi details,check out dbg.co.za for access points with Mybroadband special pricing

 

[greggpb]

Thanks guys, any recommendations on the hardware more specifically ?

 

[PsyWulf]

I'm very happy with these

 

[greggpb]

Being truly Capetonian "But they don't match my handbag"

Is there anything more swavve or fancy looking...

no offense but the TP is hideous

 

[PsyWulf]

Do you really want to display these publicly?

 

[grok]

Is there anything more swavve or fancy looking...

no offense but the TP is hideous

This one is much sexier .. http://www.dbg.co.za/product_info.php?cPath=1_55_56&products_id=757

.. and it comes in black .. http://www.dbg.co.za/product_info.php?cPath=1_55_56&products_id=759

 

[TheMightyQuin]

Get a couple of these:

http://www.netgear.nl/home/products/switches-and-access-points/access-points/WN604.aspx

There are a couple of great Netgear solutions available to you. Get from Duxbury right here in CT.

 

[remus786]

Ubiquiti Unifis - http://www.ubnt.com/unifi

Sexy and smart - Nuff said

 

[Air-Net]

We have deployed this it looks good and also allows guests to connect and use the internet without having access to the company's private network.

Ubiquiti Unifis - http://www.ubnt.com/unifi

Sexy and smart - Nuff said

 

[Crowley]

We are using these at work at the moment. No complaints.

 

[Roman4604]

Being truly Capetonian "But they don't match my handbag"

Is there anything more swavve or fancy looking...

no offense but the TP is hideous

Shouldn't matter, best position for your AP(s) is in the ceiling. The TP-Link (dedicated) APs are PoE capable and ship with an injector in the box, so you only have to run a Ethernet cable(s) into the ceiling.

 

[Silver-0-surfer]

you could get some real wifi if you want (which we sell )

http://www.xirrus.com/