Check your channels. If they dont stack or overlap with enough signal-strength separation between yours and theirs - simply change channels. If its not something you can easily implement - perhaps it would be helpful to start a dialog with them so you can all agree on network configurations that wont interfere with each-other.
-- Espi On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 6:05 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > >
