Wireless network with SBS2003 Server using Dial-up modem

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c8tz - 02 Feb 2008 00:46 GMT

Our very small officce of about 5users will soon enough have its own
little network. I'd like this to be a wireless network. Need to know
my requirements for this.
I would like to follow similar setup to that we have of our main
office network which is wired.
Its set up such that SBS Server and clients connect to the switch.

I would like similar setup for our new wireless network - for this do
I only need a Access Point which would be similar to the switch - or
do I need a wireless router (?). The server would be connected to the
(wireless)switch by cable - Wireless for the clients. This would only
require an access point right(?)

Email /Internet is through dial-up modem on the server.

I also have noted that I would need wireless adapters for each device
(laptop/PC) - which is better - USB or PCI?

thank you for your assistance.

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SuperGumby [SBS MVP] - 02 Feb 2008 01:09 GMT

You may get more response in the SBS 2003 Newsgroup.

SBS public Newsgroups:

SBS 4.x: microsoft.public.backoffice.smallbiz
SBS 2000: microsoft.public.backoffice.smallbiz2000
SBS 2003: microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs

if your current news server does not carry the mentioned groups you should
be able to connect directly to news.microsoft.com

Meanwhile:

Are you really using dialup?

If your lappies don't have their own inbuilt WIFI I'd go PC-Card or similar
before USB. For the desktops, PCI.

The WAP vs router question has a bit to do with how you set up SBS, one NIC
or two. In a one NIC SBS I'd probably use a wireless capable router (well,
actually, a firewall preferably) but with two NICs in SBS I'd maybe use same
(and force wireless clients to VPN to the server) or use a router
SBS-Internet and put a WAP SBS-Local_LAN.

Float on over to the SBS2003 group and reask the question, maybe considering
these snippets beforehand.

> Our very small officce of about 5users will soon enough have its own
> little network. I'd like this to be a wireless network. Need to know
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>
> thank you for your assistance.

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