Why does everyone always look to WiFi as the "simple" solution? Many complexes like those typically have one demarc point (MDF if you will) and branch to the other buildings (IDF) with lots of extra unused telephone pairs and Cat5. So put one T1 into the Demarc and then router, switch, In-house DSL, or 1 or 2 pair wire based media converters to deliver to the two offices. The other option is to extend the T1 demarc to your 1st office then crossconnect a telco wire pair to the second office through the common area demarc terminating the two ends with long haul wire based media converters from BlackBox, Transistions, etc. All the while exceeding the T1 speeds. This will cost you less than good quality WiFi and still be more secure. You have to put the router and switches in for both cases. The only additional hardware cost is the long haul converter and time to tone out an unused pair. Time on the Fl. Beach, priceless. :-) S. Earl Jarosh, N0HZ Money Centers of America V.P. of Information Technology 6128681313 at mobile.att.net searljarosh at moneycenters.com www.moneycenters.com "People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those of us who are doing it." -- Anonymous ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Maloney" <adam at whee.org> To: <tcwug-list at tcwug.org> Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 11:26 AM Subject: [TCWUG] 802.11b through tempered glass > I have two offices in Florida that are going to be doing wireless, so we > don't have to put two T-1's 100' away from each other. This is a building > complex with 4 buildings seperated by a 100' x 100' courtyard (they call > it the shire...god I hate Florida) Our two offices are directly across > from each other, both on the 2nd (top) floor. > > Ultimately, I'd like to just be able to use two 18" cisco yagi's pointed > at each other through the windows. I've read that some glass is a big > problem, and some is not. The landlord says the windows are tinted and > tempered. Since the offices are directly across from each other and on > the same floor, the angle of incidence into the windows would be 90 > degrees. > > I'm more interested in actual success stories rather than the theoretical > "blah blah law says...index of refraction...multiplied by theta..." - I > will be config'ing and shipping the equipment to the site, where a > semi-competent phone system installer will be mounting and plugging in. > So I have to know that this either will or will not work, since the Boy > Wonder of Phone Systems won't be of any help if it fails to come up. > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Wireless Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.tcwug.org > tcwug-list at tcwug.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tcwug-list > _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Wireless Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.tcwug.org tcwug-list at tcwug.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tcwug-list