[WEB4LIB] Re: Wireless vs. wired LAN for libraries

[Lori Bell]

Hi.  We are putting a wireless network into one of our service centers
with 12 computers, 6 of them being in a training center.  We are a
regional library system and so we are doing this to test the reliability
of wireless for our member libraries.  We are going with the Lucent
WAVELAN product and the 11 mps cards.  We also have a couple small publics
which have Carnegie buildings which are difficult to wire trying a
wireless mode.  We had an academic which wanted to try checking out
laptops with the cards in them so they could use them anywhere on the
library's network, but it was not funded.  I look forward to trying this
and hearing from others who have experience in this area.
Thanks.

Lori Bell
Automation/Technology Department
Alliance Library System
845 Brenkman Drive
Pekin, IL 61554
phone:  (309)353-4110
fax:  (309)353-8281
lbell at darkstar.rsa.lib.il.us

On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Hanan Cohen wrote:

> I am too thinking about wireless commpunications in our (soon to be
> finished, ha ha ha) renovated main floor.
> 
> I think that the "cost" issue should be considered carefully.
> 
> Since computers started showing up, we were promissed that they will
> make things cheaper. After two decades we can now safely say that they
> didn't. They give us more power for the same price. I think that the
> "cost" point of view is not the most important one. 
> 
> -- 
> Hanan Cohen
> 
> Kibbutz Tamuz - Beit Shemesh http://www.tamuz.org.il
> Qiriat Gat Library - http://www.qglibrary.org.il
> ***Love and Peace***
>