[ale] Wireless?

[Robert L. Harris]

Thus spake Jeff Hubbs (Jhubbs at niit.com):

> 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?  

It's three separate schools that won't share content for students,
just administrators, so far.

> 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.

That's it though.  The district pushes fiber, but won't pay for it.


> - 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!
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > -------------
> > Robert L. Harris                |  Micros~1 :  
> > Senior System Engineer          |    For when quality, reliability 
> >   at RnD Consulting             |      and security just aren't
> >                                 \_       that important!
> > DISCLAIMER:
> >       These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
> > FYI:
> >  perl -e 'print 
> > $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
> > 
> > 
> > --
> > To unsubscribe: mail majordomo at ale.org with "unsubscribe ale" 
> > in message body.
> > 



:wq!
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Robert L. Harris                |  Micros~1 :  
Senior System Engineer          |    For when quality, reliability 
  at RnD Consulting             |      and security just aren't
                                \_       that important!
DISCLAIMER:
      These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
FYI:
 perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'

--
To unsubscribe: mail majordomo at ale.org with "unsubscribe ale" in message body.