- Nov 30, 2015
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Hi All,
I apologize if i posted on the wrong forum and thanks in advance for all your suggestions and help. I was recently hired as an IT tech for a small company to manage the IT dept and help the users. Thus far i have been cleaning up the mess the other tech created and I am starting to work on the wireless network. Before I explain the issue I would like to give some background info on the current setup.
BACKGROUND:
The office area is about 2400-3000 Sqt Ft. The building is old and the walls are made of bricks. The network is setup in a way where a modem is feeding some switches and there are multiple routers (1 Netgear R8000 Tri-band, 3 Apple Airports) connected around the office. (There is no router between the modem and the switch). There are about 6 SSID's being broadcasted and there is one in-house DHCP Server. There is also a netgear NAS server which is connected to the network (via lan) which hosts our Shared Drive I will provide more information if needed. There are 50 Employees in the office and about 150 or so devices that rely on wifi.
What I want:
I want one SSID to broadcast where users have to connect to one SSID and move around the office without losing connection or having the need to connect to another router. I also want the routers/AP's to issue the IPs issued by the DHCP server and users could connect seamlessly to the shared drive and other services.
QUESTIONS:
How would I achieve that? Do I need to invest on buying some AP's or I can utilize what I have on hand? Also do i need an AP controller or not? If yes, will a virtual controller work for my setup? The other tech that left was complaining about people having issues connecting to the shared drive when on WIFI and that is why he chose to go with 6 SSID broadcasts and routers in different location in the office.
My Knowledge in networking
In a scale 0 to 10 I am a 4.5. I am still learning though
Thanks again for reading through this long post and helping a brotha out. I am looking forward to your thoughtful answers.
I apologize if i posted on the wrong forum and thanks in advance for all your suggestions and help. I was recently hired as an IT tech for a small company to manage the IT dept and help the users. Thus far i have been cleaning up the mess the other tech created and I am starting to work on the wireless network. Before I explain the issue I would like to give some background info on the current setup.
BACKGROUND:
The office area is about 2400-3000 Sqt Ft. The building is old and the walls are made of bricks. The network is setup in a way where a modem is feeding some switches and there are multiple routers (1 Netgear R8000 Tri-band, 3 Apple Airports) connected around the office. (There is no router between the modem and the switch). There are about 6 SSID's being broadcasted and there is one in-house DHCP Server. There is also a netgear NAS server which is connected to the network (via lan) which hosts our Shared Drive I will provide more information if needed. There are 50 Employees in the office and about 150 or so devices that rely on wifi.
What I want:
I want one SSID to broadcast where users have to connect to one SSID and move around the office without losing connection or having the need to connect to another router. I also want the routers/AP's to issue the IPs issued by the DHCP server and users could connect seamlessly to the shared drive and other services.
QUESTIONS:
How would I achieve that? Do I need to invest on buying some AP's or I can utilize what I have on hand? Also do i need an AP controller or not? If yes, will a virtual controller work for my setup? The other tech that left was complaining about people having issues connecting to the shared drive when on WIFI and that is why he chose to go with 6 SSID broadcasts and routers in different location in the office.
My Knowledge in networking
In a scale 0 to 10 I am a 4.5. I am still learning though
Thanks again for reading through this long post and helping a brotha out. I am looking forward to your thoughtful answers.
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