Originally Posted by AKorb
The desktops are all wired, and the laptops are on wireless about 80% of the time.

And here's a bit more info:
Dell PowerEdge 2900 with Windows 2003 SBS
Connected to a Netgear FS116 16-Port unmanaged 10/100 switch (connects the desktops, server, random wall ports, wireless router, and firewall).
Wireless router is a Linksys WRT54GL (was fine when they were smaller, but things have changed. Upgrading to a Cisco Aironet in the coming months, which will certainly help). Also, if you say it's a wireless problem, I would totally believe you smile

First thing would be to go to a GIG switch, preferably one that will support VLAN/tagging; don't have to do that now, but that can help performance once you implement it.

Wireless is GOING TO BE SLOWER, and sometimes that will cause dropped connections. If you are upgrading the wireless, do a spectrum survey in each location you intend to use it, find the best (uncluttered, unoccupied) frequency, and then look at signal strength and consider repeaters. Lock the network down to the MAC addresses of the laptops so that spurious connection attempts are dropped faster.

When you get around to it, implement VLAN for AC traffic, and a squid proxy or edge network appliance to make the network run faster by blocking FB and YouLuze[Productivity & Bandwidth]

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