All, I can't remember if I've asked this before - it's certainly been on my mind a bit lately.
Until recently, we've been the main tenant in a medium-sized three story building, taking up most of the first floor, and all of the second floor, with a tenant occupying the north half of the third floor. (it's about 190,000sqft, of which we occupy around 100,000sqft). Now there are new tenants on the 1st floor, and the tenant on the third floor has expanded to both sides of the building, and they've each mounted their own wifi infrastructure - very understandable. However, the tenant on the 3rd floor seems to have completely revamped their infrastructure (they used to use Cisco) and have turned up the power quite a bit on their new Meraki units, and I'm starting get reports of our staff having a hard time connecting to our WAPs. We have 17 Cisco units (15x1240AG, and two newer units - I can't remember which model off the top of my head). It looks as if the 3rd floor tenant has a minimum of 9 Meraki units on the South side of the building - I haven't yet surveyed the North side. I'm looking online for strategies for managing wireless in this kind of environment, and not seeing much - probably using the wrong search terms. Aside from working with the landlord (which I plan on doing once I have a bit more understanding under my belt), what strategies (technical and business) have you seen employed to make such an environment "livable"? I'm pretty sure that simply turning up the power on our WAPs isn't going to be a winning strategy - it's probably just start a wifi war, and I'd prefer to avoid that. Kurt
