Re: Wide Area Wireless Lan ?

["Dan James" <UKHA@xxxxxxx>]

FWIW...

Havng worked for a large uk telco - we always used Wireless as the
last possible means of contact......... Frame or VPN were our first
choices everytime..

Dan



--- In ukha_d@y..., "Doogie Brodie" <doogiebrodie@z...>
wrote:
>
> > 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