Going entirely wireless instead of wired
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One of our buildings is old and really pre-dates when network cabling was standard. As a result we have a hodge podge of cable strung around that is difficult to manage, exposed to anyone who walks by and just generally doesn't look very professional.
Our ownership is planning to renovate one part of this building that happens to be where our "server room" is. I use this term loosely because it is just an unused office with a wall rack where the network cabling comes together. I want to see if as part of the renovation I can pitch cleaning up this mess that we have in that building, though I know the expense of rerunning cable may not fly.
It got me to wondering though, is there any reason I shouldn't plan to just go entirely wireless in that building? I was thinking this may be a method to redo some without having to re cable the entire building. As long as I plan AP placement correctly (which shouldn't be hard, the building isn't that big) would this be viable for a production corporate manufacturing facility and office?
My thought would be to run a few cables for the AP's and maybe the printers but just plan for everything else to be wireless. Is there an issue that I'm not considering that would negate this idea?
Thanks for any feedback.
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I've had to deal with the same sort of buildings before. The key will be to have a good site survey done ahead of time. If you end up needing an AP in every room, it's probably not worth it.
Just an educated guess here, but 2.4GHz will probably get halfway acceptable coverage without acceptable speed for the end users while 5GHz will likely not cover enough area to make it worth moving to entirely.
