> The APs were installed by a third-party company (they make printers with
> expensive ink, you may have heard of them), and actually physically
> locating some of them is proving 'fun' owing to the fact they're above
> suspended ceilings and the like - without pulling down half the ceiling,
> they're a bit tricky to find.
For this sort of thing I have the Fluke AirCheck with the directional
antenna. I've successfully found a fair few missing APs with this device.
It's not cheap but even without the directional antenna it's quite a useful
little device. It shows a nice diagnostic of the various authentication and
connection stages for 802.1x and other methods. It gives a reasonable idea
of signal quality and interference in an area in both 2.4GHz and 5GHz.
For the price you can probably get more info from a laptop but the AirCheck
is more portable and the antenna is quite useful.
Mike
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