Branners Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 One for the IT people out there... I am trying to find a wireless network hub. So, it would be a device that connects to my wireless router and then either gives a single Cat5 connection out (which I can plug in to a hub) or has an inbuilt hub for cat5. This would be used in a room which has no network connection at all, but needs to run at least 10 desktop computers. We cannot use USB wireless adapters in each desktop as the configuration on those would be a nightmare and we may not have admin access to the computers. So, anybody ever seen something to do this? I did think we could use a second wireless router as an extender to the first one and hub out the back of that, but somebody told me the network performance drops horribly if you do that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imi Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 So, anybody ever seen something to do this? I did think we could use a second wireless router as an extender to the first one and hub out the back of that, but somebody told me the network performance drops horribly if you do that. Cisco do wireless hubs, you should be able to pickup a 340 / 350 series quite cheap. Regarding performance, if this is 11b (11Mb shared) then you will be using this across 10 PCs so dont expect amazing performance when using all 10 PCs together. Best to have a 10 port switch, connect 1 port of that switch to the wireless hub - atleast communications between the 10 PCs will then be across the switch and then across the link via the shared wifi link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 I solved a similar issue at home (smaller scale, 4 machines only) using a regular switch and a Homeplug setup. A gigabit switch / plug combo will be much quicker than wireless unless you are going for wireless N. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 I solved a similar issue at home (smaller scale, 4 machines only) using a regular switch and a Homeplug setup. A gigabit switch / plug combo will be much quicker than wireless unless you are going for wireless N. Might not work on a 3-phase wired building.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 Might not work on a 3-phase wired building.... True. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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