[ale] Wireless?

[Jeff Hubbs]

Robert -

Ah, fun!  

I say, if the district wants to do fiber, LET THEM!  

In wireless-land, you can get T1 speeds, maybe more.  Looks like
$850/interface can get you 11Mb/s.  BUT, since you're doing Samba, this will
result in practical limits to what you can accomplish with your file
sharing.  Trying to launch Word coming over a T1-speed connection sounds
pretty thankless, and what of your CD-ROM/multimedia content?  

If the district will pop for single-mode fiber, you'd be very, very set.
You can start out with Ethernet-over-fiber and who knows what later on -
Fibre Channel?  FC would lend itself to stringing fiber in a ring instead of
a star centered on one building.

You may want to investigate the use of the Centravision file system at
http://www.adic.com/US/English/Products/Software/CentraVision/index.html.
There may be open-source analogues coming down the pipe (Intermezzo?) that
might grease the skids a bit too.

- Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert L. Harris [mailto:Robert.L.Harris at rnd-consulting.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 12:19 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: [ale] Wireless?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I've been doing some free work for a local charter school to help them
> get closer to the technology curve.  We now have a working 
> proxy server
> and a samba fileserver is next.
> 
> At any rate they need to network a number of buildings separated 
> by hard concrete.  The district is pushing for suspending fibre
> overland with the power/phone lines.  I'm thinking wireless.  I've got
> about 500" of clear line of sight to go.  Any good solutions? 
>  Preferably
> as cheap as possible.  Backing it with a linux box is also a good
> thing if it helps.
> 
> 
> Thoughts?
>   Robert
> 
> 
> 
> :wq!
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