Have already used that - must say I'm not a fan of the newest version. They want you to go to the pro/pay version for it to be as useful as it used to be. If I'm going to do that, I'm going to want to step up and get the
Everyone's WAPs @ 2.4GHz are on 1, 6 and 11 - the classic three. I'll have to take a look to see what's happening @5GHz. I suppose I could choose 3 and 9, but that would prove tricky for our own WAPs, with a fair amount of overlap among them. Kurt On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr <[email protected]> wrote: > I meant to mention: An excellent (and free) tool for comparing networks and > visualizing how they overlap and stack is inSSIDer, by MetaGeek. > > -- > 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 >>> >>> >> >
