Hello!
We are planning a campus wide Wifi deployment. I am looking for
tool and advice on how to do site survey. We are looking at Cisco airspace
solution with controller. The test deployment 20 AP was done with consultant
and the actual site survey was to install and move around one mobile AP and
check the reception with a laptop to determine the final AP spot. This process
was repeated until the floor was covered. Not a very scientific approach and
quite costly.
>From my reading there are 2 types of site survey:
-Spectrum analyser to evaluate noise in your environment.
-Simulation software tool where you load your (autocad) floor plan and the
software will help to define the location of your access-points.
-Another survey is to install all access-points and walk the floor and take
sample reading with a laptop and software and analyse the result.
-Once you have your Wifi network Cisco seem to have some functionality where AP
can listen to each other and adjusted their power and maybe recommend to move
some AP around. (WLSE walkabout feature old aeronet solution) but at this point
you need to have your network install before using this tool.
I was looking at air magnet software to those 2 functions any comments?
What was your experience with those softwares? Any other that I should look at?
In only few lines, how do you proceed with your WIFI site survey and what tool
do you use?
Thanks
Christian Héroux
University of Quebec
Montréal, Canada
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