Anyone using Wireless-N yet?

[Jerry Feldman]

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:38:48 -0400
"John Abreau" <abreauj-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> My wireless users are in the building when they need wireless access.
> They can plug in with a wire to 100Mbps, but they find it easier to just
> use the wireless. They use it to access both the local LAN and the
> Internet. We have a Cisco PIX firewall for the wired LAN, and the
> wireless blocks all connections except for a hand-maintained list
> of MAC addresses.

I don't think that upgrading to 802.11N would be wise for you at this
point. First, your wired access is now at 100M. Your Internet
connection is probably well under 100M, and you risk a spec change. If
I were in your position, the only reason I would go to N is if your
users were doing a lot of VOIP or streaming video. If it is mostly
email and file transfer (access to file servers), then N is probably
not going to buy you anything. I would first look to upgrading the core
of your LAN to 1 or 10 Gbps (CAT6) where the servers are. Then, after
the N routers have been out for a while and 802.11N is either adopted
or close to it, then upgrade to N.=20

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