Hi Waheed. This depends very much if you plan to do a active or passive site survey. Some years ago I used to use Cisco PCIMCA Aironet Card with the Cisco Site survey utility. That had passive and active options.
But today, I mostly do passive site surveys. As the customer usually doesnt know what he wants exept for coverage :) unless there is a requirement for voice over wireless. I tend to use the Cisco wifi phone site survey utility, since it is generally a better idea to use and test the clients that will actually be using the network. If Cisco phones aren´t planned, there might be a need for a smartphone site survey program. in both cases I have been quite happy with Inssider from metageek http://www.metageek.net/support/downloads/ its a passive survey tool but it is free and it works for smartphones aswell. (search for wifi analyzer in android market for example) in this case I have just printed out a floor plan of the project and used it to mark down signal strength and quality. it is some work but you tend to get quicker by time. Some more advanced players reading thist post can probably tell you more about tools such as AirMagnet or such tools that can have floor building added to it and some really cool automation. But this is of course not free and will take you some time to get the hang of it. I would like to add, that I recently purchaced a 1400$ kit called Surveyor. It is comes in a pelican case, packed down carrier, pole and a battery pack with power inline to your site survey AP. This can be taken with you on the flight aswell and doesn´t take much space and is set up in 5 minutes and packed in less. This has dramitcally decreased the survey time for me and I can highly reccomend it. Even though it costs money you will get it back really quickly by charging your customers for its use. Thats what I did and after 5-6 surveys it already has paid off. Take a look at: http://www.castertray.com/surveyor.html I even used this in a warehouse, where the battery pack was mounted on a forklifter and the forklifter moved around with the anntennas during the survey. Really cool stuff and makes the survey more fun, as it really wasn´t before with all the hazzle of getting power, setting something together yourself e.t.c regards, Kristjan -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: 2. ágúst 2012 16:00 To: [email protected] Subject: CCIE_Wireless Digest, Vol 40, Issue 1 Send CCIE_Wireless mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://onlinestudylist.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ccie_wireless or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of CCIE_Wireless digest..." Today's Topics: 1. wireless site survey tool / software (waheed Ahmed) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 04:11:26 -0700 (PDT) From: waheed Ahmed <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: [OSL | CCIE_Wireless] wireless site survey tool / software Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Dear Guys, I want to that which software can be used for Wireless Site Survey as we want to deploy Wireless network on 10 floor building. Is their any software available from Cisco or any freeware software for this kind of site survey. ? With Regards Waheed Ahmed +971-55-7720310 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: </archives/ccie_wireless/attachments/20120802/683fc5e2/attachment-0001.html> ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ CCIE_Wireless mailing list [email protected] http://onlinestudylist.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ccie_wireless End of CCIE_Wireless Digest, Vol 40, Issue 1 ******************************************** _______________________________________________ For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please visit www.ipexpert.com Are you a CCNP or CCIE and looking for a job? Check out www.PlatinumPlacement.com
