I presume by channel stacking you mean selecting channels for our WAPs that have least overlap with the closest of their WAPs - say, if they're doing 11, make sure that the closest ones we have are either 6 or 1, etc.
Am I understanding you correctly? Kurt On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 7:11 PM, Jon Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >>
