<div dir="ltr">Hi Jimmy!<br><br>User access will only be issue #2. Issue #1 will be bandwidth. Or more correctly, lack. Better plan on multiple (10-30+) access points. The suggestions of coova are very valid. Placement becomes a challenge with a large number of WAPs installed as well. They must be close enough to the use points but far enough apart that the connection doesn't flip-flop is the user shifts in their chair all while being close enough to have good signal everywhere. Signal strength is a big factor in user bandwidth. Sharing a 10 Mb pipe with 20 people surfing youtube would painfully slow.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/9/21 jimmy halbert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jimmy_halbert@yahoo.com">jimmy_halbert@yahoo.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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I am looking for a open source wireless networking solution. I have an organization that is going to have 450 wireless users of which half of these users will be online at a time. I am looking for a solution to control the access points, and provide some measure of security. Any suggested would be helpful. I have looked at Aruba,Foundry and IronPoint...all of these solutions are way out of budget. <br>
<br>--- On <b>Fri, 9/5/08, <a href="mailto:hbbs@comcast.net" target="_blank">hbbs@comcast.net</a> <i><<a href="mailto:hbbs@comcast.net" target="_blank">hbbs@comcast.net</a>></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">
From: <a href="mailto:hbbs@comcast.net" target="_blank">hbbs@comcast.net</a> <<a href="mailto:hbbs@comcast.net" target="_blank">hbbs@comcast.net</a>><br>Subject: [ale] Server Hardware<br>To: <a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a><br>
Date: Friday, September 5, 2008, 1:38 PM<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br><pre>In more recent years, I've advocated buying servers from manufacturers who<br>use high-quality standard-issue motherboards
to include the same manufacturers<br>who make the motherboards themselves as opposed to the typical Dell/HP/IBM<br>sourcing that's so prevalent in industry.<br><br>My experience has been that even though the Dell/HP/IBM warranty, support, and<br>
field service are supposed to be the big compelling draw and are supposed to<br>justify the cost, in reality:<br><br>* Field service is often slow, ineffectual, and/or incapable of making sound<br>technical evaluations of situations yet won't take your word for anything<br>
* Parts - from cooling fans to motherboards - are not typical COTS items, so<br>you're dependent on the manufacturer and/or field support for even the<br>slightest issue<br>* Shoddy workmanship, poor QA, and shipping damage run rampant<br>
<br>On the other hand, manufacturers that integrate and produce servers out of COTS<br>still give you a decent enough warranty but leave you able to source parts from<br>where you feel like it for the sake of
expediency or post-sale modification, and<br>you can easily buy and store extra power supplies, RAM, mobos, drive sleds, and<br>power supplies so that a server that has gone dead and won't POST can be<br>brought back to life by on-hand staff in a few minutes' time. <br>
<br>1. Is this valid today? Was it ever?<br>2. What manufacturers have you had a good history with? What vendors sell<br>their products? <br><br>I personally bought a Supermicro SuperServer from HL Computer locally a while<br>
back, and once I replaced its dodgy power supply it's been fine, running<br>without a reboot up at QTS for over 500 days. HL does not ordinarily carry such<br>equipment so I'd like to find a vendor who has a good history of selling<br>
this sort of equipment.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Ale mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org" target="_blank">Ale@ale.org</a><br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale" target="_blank">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>
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