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  • From: Jim Ray <jim AT neuse.net>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Will wireless suffice for an office of 12?
  • Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 15:10:12 -0500

dear neophyte kevin,

your environment may differ from mine. i live near ncsu and have 26,000 students with wireless this, that and the other thing. from a strict engineering perspective, signal interference is more culprit than anything and has little to do with one's skill in setting up wireless networks. if signal interference occurs while using a web browser, the end user probably will not notice a problem. if signal interference occurs while checking email, a POP lock may occur and cause the user to experience a problem.

you would probably be a happier person if you spent more time trying to help than hurt others.

regards,

jim

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Kevin Sonney wrote:

On 1/27/06, Lance A. Brown <lance AT bearcircle.net> wrote:

Would you care to elaborate on that? "certain protocols like the ones
use for email"? Like what: SMTP? IMAP? IMAPS? POP? POPS? Explain to
me how wireless messes them up.


Jim can't, and wifi won't. Packets are packets, and aside from signal
interference WiFi is perfectly reliable for home, office, or travel
use. I know several large companies (Apple, RedHat, Cisco, and IBM for
starters) who use Wifi extensively in their offices. Admittedly, they
don't use WiFI for their servers, but in no way will wifi cause
problems with the actual data protocols.

Mr. Ray had a bad experience with WiFi. Since then he has consistently
sold FUD about 802.11[a|b|g]. He has done it here, he has done it on
other local mailing lists.

I have been using WiFi for several years now. Aside from signal
interference problems caused by non-compliant devices (2.4GhZ phones
do NASTY things across the spectrum to maintain signals), I have not
had data loss due to "protocol problems" on my WiFi. WiFi is perfectly
reliable for small, medium, and large office use when set up
correctly.

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