RE: Wide Area Wireless Lan ?

["Doogie Brodie" <doogiebrodie@xxxxxxx>]

> Further t  Tim's point, make sure that the "professionals"
in question
> actually have real experience doing this.
> The first one I ever put in, the "professionals" had never
> done it before,
> but had lied about their ability. We had no service for
> several weeks, and
> settled on compensation!

We had an 11MB one "professionally" installed by a Glasgow
company. It
worked fine for first couple of months, then started dying on a regular
basis..... they came out regularly, claimed it was the wall warts causing
the problem (!), replaced them a few times. Had a few days outage at a time
"Sorry, its a bank holiday, we're closed, call back tomorrow" !
Still up and
down every few days, mainly for no apparent reason.

The company seemed to know what they were doing and seemed to have done
many
previous installs etc.....  The setup cost was about ?3K plus about ?1.5K
annual support. For a similar project we're doing to a nearby building,
we're looking at Frame Relay or a leased line instead of wireless.

> I make a lot of money for my employers in compensation
> claims, but I wish I didn't have to!

Hmmmmm..... theres a good idea..... between useless wireless installations
and incompetent Novell consultants, we could probably make a packet :-)

Cheers

Doogie