Welcome to the Technologies for Small and Medium Businesses Discussion

[ciscomoderator]

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[noldy2001]

thanks for your warm welcome. i'm anew guy around and happy to join you all....godd day.

i'm a new it staff in my ofice and we want to set up a lan in a four-story, old structured building. its too difficult to drill holes. how can we interconnect each floor switch through wireless?

[robboyd]

So how is this for a specific answer...it depends... :-). Your questions begs a bit more information, most notably, what are your networking needs for this office both now and in the next 5 years? Wireless may be just fine for your needs but things like either bandwidth heavy applications, applications that need a predictable quality of service...like voice or video...these can all make a big difference. The other thing to consider is how you will innerconnect your networking peripherals like printers. These devices will probably not natively support wireless and would require a compatible piece of hardware...not expensive but may not be trivial.

My best advice is that you should engage a Cisco partner with wireless expertise. A site survey will be critical to this decision, especially since I don't know what the composition of the construction is...that same partner can provide you with much better advice on your specific situation given a good physicaly review of the facility. Let me know if you need assistance finding a partner.

Robb