is not necessarily a difficult task if you can run a cable between the three floors. The construction of the building will determine what route the cable can take. Note that cabling within ducting requires a special cable known as plenum rated (in the States). Placing a multiported switch on each floor, a broadband modem (if being used) and a router will allow access to all your PCs. Wireless makes this easier if the speed hit on intranet file transfers does not matter.
We have a small three-story building. My husband is a small-business owner. We have decided to network all three floors of this building. We still don't know how to network all three floors of the main office...
We are going to set up a small wired networks (LAN, Fast Ethernet) in each floor. There are 8 PCs and a printer on the first floor. There are 4 PCs and a printer on the second floor. There are 2 PCs and a printer on the top floor.
We still don't know how to network all three floors of this building...??? We are thinking of Power-line, Phone-line Networking, however they are still slower than Fast Ethernet, aren't they???
We don't mind for running cables across the floor between computer in the same room.
We have to hire a professional and install the Cat 5 cabling in the walls of the main office, and connect the cable to special RJ-45 wall boxes, haven't we...?
Today, I just read this article, http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-7605_7-5136234-2.html?tag=dir
"Hide the cables wherever you can, such as in plastic tubing, under wall molding or carpeting, in a drop ceiling, inside conduits, or snaked through baseboard heating units. Putting them inside the walls is expensive, and it locks in a floor plan."
I don't know what to do any more... Please tell us the way to network all three floor of this small building, if you know the best! If somebody else here knows the price to install cables in a small building, please tell us approximately. Based on your information, we will budget again for hiring a professional.
Any assistance which you can give me would be gratefully appreciated.
Sincerely,

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