Please help me with this networking problem

The ABC Company has purchased three small buildings. One building willl house the accounting department with three employees. each will need a computer. All will share a printer. the second building will house the markting department with four employees each one needs their own computer and they will share a printer. The third building wil be the main office with four employees, each with their own computer and sharing a printer. File sharing will be done by a server in the main office. Also, the WAN connection will be in the main ofice.

Write a paper explaining what you will need to do to network this company. Include all types of cabling needed and all equipment needed. Draw a diagram showing your setup with all connections. Your WAN connection can be shown as a cloud connected by a /\/\/.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

 

This wouldn't be an official assignment for some sort of school now would it?

I have had to do these for assignments in the UoPhoenix online, so if it is, I know that they frown on getting this much help.

If it's not any kind of individual assignment, I will be more than happy to send you a solution that I would use.

 

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My cousin sent it to me and asked if I could help him out.

 

I was thinking....

that for three buildings and 11 total users listed, a simple 4 or 8 port switch would suffice. Share out the printer on one persons machine and just have wireless between the buildings if they have LoS. I'm simple that way though

 

Would this work?

each building needs a router hub, the computers hoooked together by a cat 5 cable to the hub

main computer to router, router to computers in main building, you also need ot branch from the main computer to the other buildings, into a router hub and to those computers in each building

one router hub per building

 

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Would that work? or is this better: Run wires to each building, use hubs to split the wires for each workstation/printer. and use a router for the wan.

 

Have one centeral location with a router for WAN access, maybe have a NAT device after the router to provide DHCP, then have a switch after that going to wireless aerials, going to each of the buildings. Have a hub/switch in each building, connect all computers to that, and a print server as well for printers to be shared, unless they have one built in. Then, you have all computers in building connected to the WAN and the rest of the LAN too.

File server needs to be undernearth the NAT device , maybe on its own port on the main switch.

Hope that gives you a nudge

 

Thanks!

how would you draw the diagram? Thanks for your help.

 

Here's what I have got.....

This is a real simple explaination....Let me know If this would work.

Computers/printer in A Building to Hub to Router Run Fiber optic to Building b's Router to Hub to Computers/printer then run cable to Building C's Router to Hub to Computers/Printer. Multiple routers is more expensive, but would save on overall network useage, and make it easier to manage. Also I would connect the WAN to the Router in Building A.

 

ooo, I like that, very secure and can be used to transfer phone lines also. Wmux makes some really good stuff. I think that in order to adequately answer this question you need have some more info. The current state of the buildings, how they are wired together now, and such. As it stands, your best bet is probably wireless connections between each building, if you don't want to go with a multiplexer and just use access points then set them up in a bridged mode, and lock out all mac addresses oher then te one it is pointed at, some moderate gain directional antennas will work well enough and pretty much eliminate signal fade due to weather. When going wireless it's also important to consider your enviromental conditions. If ABC corp is in So. California it's a no brainer, Minnesota might not be such a good idea.
f you really want to inpress the professor then try drawing up a few diffrent diagrams, each with pros and cons, and prices. This is what a company is looking for whn you bid a job like this. So have your cousin do two proposals, a wired and wireless option, or maybe wireless with access points and one with a multiplexer. Don't forget to include the estimated cost per foot of trenching and conduit for the wire. It's usually somewhere are $15, at least in our area.