Brian, We're gone from using Wireless Valley to AirMagnet Survey. The former I would consider best of breed (allows assignment of attenuation values to CAD drawing layers) but its a bit unwieldy (and expensive) as far as an active survey tool. AirMagnet and Ekahau offer more reasonably priced tools, but require you manually ID walls and obstructions for site planning. Otherwise you can perform on-site surveys in active mode (association-based) or passive mode (reports on all received signal strengths). After a while you can get a feel of things and do what John Watters has described, but it still may behoove you to do a walk-around to measure the coverage, either with the above tools or a NetStumbler, client adapter and/or AP-driven utility, with particular attention to co-channel separation and overlap. ************************************ Bruce Johnson Network Engineer Partners Healthcare 617-726-9662 mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************
________________________________ From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv on behalf of Brian J David Sent: Fri 5/9/2008 2:34 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless planner tools We are looking to do some dorms wile the students are away and wanted to get some input on what other folks use as a planner tool for wireless. Any feature that people like or dislike that we should or should not consider? Cost is also a factor. Brian Brian J David Network Systems Engineer Boston College ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. The information transmitted in this electronic communication is intended only for the person or entity to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this information in error, please contact the Compliance HelpLine at 800-856-1983 and properly dispose of this information. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
