Upgrading to a more powerful Wireless Network

[bubarooni]

Hi,

I am looking for advice. At my main location I have two buildings connected via fiber (i'll call them 'Front' and 'Back'). The buildings are only seperated by about 75 feet. Each building also has a Linksys WAP54G so laptop users, a couple of workstations and a printserver can access the network.

There is a building about 20 feet from the Back building. It is about 30 x 40 and management wants to buy it to house our maintenance staff to free up the space in the Back building. I need to extend network coverage to that building. Oct 1 is the move in date.

Across the street from the Front building is an empty lot. In the spring we are going to build another building over there where I will also need to extend network coverage.

The entire site with the two new buildings encompass a rectangle about 450 feet long by 400 feet wide.

What I would like to do is get a single piece of Wireless equipment powerful enough to cover the entire area. Any other strategy and/or recommedations on equipment would be greatly appreciated.

 

[bpinning]

Hey,

I would suggest that you don't do it with one device.

Get an AP for the little building u'll be in and two on top of the "front" building for the new building over the road, and an AP for the building over the road.

Small Building <----> "back" <----> "front" <----> Over Road

Wireless AP ~~~~~ Wireless AP --- Fibre --- Wireless AP ~~~~~ Wireless AP

So both connections to the little building and the one accross the road are done by wireless. When you build your new building, cable the building.

I would suggest a good point to point wireless system, like a Cisco Aironet.

Hope this helps.

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