Remember you can place a wireless router on the permiter so if most of his work is on one end of the building, placing the router there and plugging it into the network infrastructure works well.

There are network access points all through the building where I could plug in the wireless device. I would not be more than 75 feet from it. The cell phones have to punch out through the walls to the nearest tower. Most of the time they can but when they can't it's at the worst times to loose comm.

My supervisor is pushing for the laptop, he is kind of a techy freak himself. He does not buy into IT concerns about "network security" issues.

We do have a printer, it is a 6 year old laser printer that just chugs along.