I meant to mention: An excellent (and free) tool for comparing networks and visualizing how they overlap and stack is *inSSIDer*, by MetaGeek<http://www.metageek.com>.
-- Espi On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> >> >
