That speed should give enterprise net managers plenty of time to assess their net requirements, scope out product plans and address with vendors a range of critical issues such as technical support and software stability. On this topic Newsletters Wireless Watch. These include installing many more wireless access points than today's wireless LANs need, higher power consumption for laptop interface cards, security, and remote administration and network management. Technical support staff are often hard to reach. Because of small differences in the way vendors implement the standards, interface cards from one vendor might not work with the access point from another.
Software drivers are flaky or have to be laboriously updated.
That's what one user discovered when evaluating wireless LANs. But we'd make a call to the support line, and you'd have to call three or four times, or you'd get forwarded to three or four different departments to find the right guy. Maers wouldn't be specific but he says the products he evaluated were from the major manufacturers in the wireless arena. Like CoManage, other companies are turning to wireless LANs, even though wireless throughput still lags far behind faster Ethernet-switched LANs. You can't install wire, for whatever reason.