If you have dual band Wi-Fi's on the systems and if the Cisco units support it
you might want to try switching to A instead of using B, G or N. I know a lot
of if's but it should help and your neighbors would most likely not even see
your signal (A band anyway). Other than that go with Micheal's suggestion
start the conversation with the building owner and get them involved before you
go to the neighbors.
Jon
> Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 18:05:32 -0800
> Subject: [NTSysADM] wifi in multitenant buildings?
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
>
> 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
>
>
