"> good proportion of the APs were never properly located in the Cisco
> WCS,
that doesnt actually do much...its presentation over anything else."
I did wonder! How about the floor planning stuff? I've drawn in the
walls and so on, and found it produced a much more robust signal as it
seemed to poke the APs around. Case in point, the AP in the corner of
our office used to do diddly squat. I drew the walls in, it
re-calculated everything, suddenly this AP is on a much higher power and
actually servicing requests.
Or am I possibly just seeing an odd coincidence?
"note that with the older WISM software/code, if the APs are set to auto
power then they have very basic algorithm....and all APs in same group
end up with same coverage zone....'equal size' coverage..
if you have uneven spread of APs then this would be an issue"
They are all on auto, as far as I am aware. The general gist I've gotten
from Cisco is that this is the best option. Should I perhaps use the
planning mode and manually configure things, based on the proposals from
that?
Regards
--
David Rickard
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-----Original Message-----
From: Wireless Issues in the JANET community
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Alan Buxey
Sent: 13 April 2012 10:21
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Surveying kit - starting out
Hi,
> good proportion of the APs were never properly located in the Cisco
> WCS,
that doesnt actually do much...its presentation over anything else.
> So to try and kill two birds with one stone, I'm looking for a decent
> bit of software which allows me to survey the site, and a) locate APs
> and b) locate areas with poor signal. So far I've played with a few,
> and the favourite is TamoSoft Site Survey
> (http://www.tamos.com/products/wifi-site-survey/). It seems pretty
> simple and robust, which suits me. Plus it doesn't cost an arm and a
> leg.
as David said, AirCheck is good. something free/basic (eg WiFi Analyser
on Android) can be just as effective at finding APs above the ceiling
tiles.... just lock onto a BSSID and walk until you have highest signal.
there are whole debates about whether to put them above the tiles
(security/obscurity/tidyness) rather than below (easier to find, manage,
change, likely to give better signals to the end users....)
note that with the older WISM software/code, if the APs are set to auto
power then they have very basic algorithm....and all APs in same group
end up with same coverage zone....'equal size' coverage..
if you have uneven spread of APs then this would be an issue
alan
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