I think you may be referring to Micheal's post on channel stacking if not, no I
was referring to getting off the B, G, and N channels all together and go to A
but not all WAP's support A and not all machines have cards capable of using A
since it is consider so "old" and troublesome but I found in certain cases it
is the better choice if it is available to you.
Jon
> Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 19:46:25 -0800
> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] wifi in multitenant buildings?
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
>
> 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
> >>
> >>
>
>
