Network Planning

From: Steve (scsashland_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/05/04 

Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 07:45:44 -0700

I'm hoping for some advice on setting up our SBS 2003 Premium network. We
operate a non profit alcohol and drug free housing program. On our property
is a large transitional house 16 beds for clients and two apartment
buildings for 8 families. We also have a building that houses our offices,
a technology center, and a public meeting room.

The Goals: In the office building there are 3 offices and a reception area
with workstations for staff. A couple of staff members also use wireless
laptops at work and home. We have a locking closet for our server. In the
technology center room there are 4 workstations with Office 2003 and
Internet access intended for use by clients and tenants. I planned on and
have purchased device type CAL's for those 4 workstations. There could be
50 or more users but never more than 4 at a time in the tech center. I'd
like to monitor their usage and be able to block some sites. I'm hoping to
accomplish this with ISA2000. The public meeting room is for our private
board meetings and other public meetings. I'd like to provide wireless
internet access in this room to anyone without them having to be a user on
our network. I'd also like for staff and board members to be able to
connect to the network in this room during our staff and board meetings.

Summary:
Offices and Reception Area: Staff are logged into SBS network on their
workstations and wireless laptops with internet and intranet access.
Visitors would be able to have internet access on wireless clients and
possibly access to a printer.

Technology Center: Clients and tenants logged into the SBS network with
internet access, their own SharePoint intranet site and access to a network
printer located in the same room. They should not have access to important
business information.

Meeting room: This room provides public internet access with no access to
business information or intranet sites. It also would allow staff and board
members to log onto the SBS network and resources.

Staff Member Homes: Staff needs to be able to log onto the network from
their home computers and laptops. Board members need to be able to access a
password protected SharePoint site from their homes and maybe email.

Public Web Site: It is a very, very low traffic site. I'd like to host it
ourselves on the SBS server and have many people contribute to it from their
homes, our offices, and the technology center.

Currently I have a NetGear MR814 v1.0 wireless router and broadband cable
internet access. The router seems to provide the wireless coverage we
desire. The entire building is wired with CAT 5. I have accomplished some
of this already with my current Windows 2000 network. I need to know how
to best setup the router(s) and SBS 2003 to provide both security and
usability for this network. I have an additional NetGear MR814 v2.0
wireless router, a Linksys BEFSR41 V.2 cable router, a few 5 to 9 port
switches I could use for the network. Any advice would be greatly
appreciated. I need some directions from the cable modem back.

My initial thoughts are to use the Linksys router or a switch between the
cable modem and the servers external network card. Then I could probably
plug a NetGear wireless router into the Linksys or the switch to provide the
public wireless internet access. Then I guess I would have to connect the
servers internal network card to a switch and plug a wireless router into it
for Staff. Does this make sense? I don't want to loose any SBS/ISA
functionality by using routers or multiple routers? Simple would be good
also. Any ideas?

TIA
Steve

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