Tips for Going Wireless
Who hasn’t run into a problem or two with wireless connections – whether it be a wireless network, wireless keyboard, wireless mouse, Bluetooth, the list goes on.
While wireless access gives you the option of freedom – let’s be honest, nothing beats a wire. If you are thinking about installing a wireless network into your office, please consider limiting the wireless to your conference room, or the break room, or some small area where you have control over it.
If you are going to outfit your entire office with wireless connectivity, please take this precautions:
1 – Research the product offerings – don’t expect to put a $79 Linksys Wireless device in your 2000 square foot office space and expect it to reach the outskirts of the office.
2 – Understand your building – there might be concrete walls, steel beams, cordless telephones – check with your neighbors, they might be close enough to mess up your signal.
3 – Purchase repeaters – most of the time you cannot outfit an entire office with 1 wireless device. Repeaters are just that – they repeat the signal to other areas of the office
4 – Never, and I repeat, Never connect servers or ‘always on’ devices to the wireless network.
Again, nothing beats a wire so you should connect your servers, printers, scanners via a CAT5 wire to your switch.
