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The last two places I've worked have gone completely wireless - and gotten mixed results. The first place was a small business and their network guys were nail
by at-fates-hands 11y ago
The last two places I've worked have gone completely wireless - and gotten mixed results.
The first place was a small business and their network guys were nails. They had the whole system set up in three days, and we were screaming (close to a 100MB both ways) and since we didn't have a ton of users, it was rock solid and really dependable.
Just landed a few months ago at a huge corporation who did the same thing and it's horrible. The connection drops in and out, the speeds are anemic (around 2-5MB during the day, both ways) and in out project room, we've had so many problems, they're going to turn the LAN outlets back on so the service will be at least reliable.
The crazy thing is I've spoken to other people on my floor and they've told me before they went wireless, the network was far more reliable and much faster (closer to 40-50MB) both up and down.
- liveoneggs 11y agowas bigcorp using enterprise AP (aruba?) and little guy using off-the-shelf stuff (asus?)
- buffoon 11y agoIronically that's the first thing I thought...
- ocdtrekkie 11y agoSometimes I'm amazed how much better consumer hardware seems to perform over enterprise wireless hardware. I just haven't seen an enterprise wireless device I was impressed with. Mind you, I assume enterprise hardware prioritizes security over performance, whereas consumer devices prioritize performance over security.
- monocasa 11y agoIDK, that sounds like a false dichotomy. Enterprise security just has you look up the credentials in LDAP on initial connect rather than having everyone use the same credentials last time I checked.
- ocdtrekkie 11y agoIt's not meant to indicate it's impossible to have both fast and secure, but in terms of where a company's focus is on improving their product. Many more resources are invested in improving security in an enterprise product than performance.
- at-fates-hands 11y agobigcorp was Cisco and the little guy was using off-the-shelf stuff, though I can't remember the manufacturer.