We are kicking around the notion of quantifying cell coverage campus wide, in all rooms of all buildings.
Though we have worked with a local company in a couple of specific areas for professional survey work, there is interest in perhaps doing our own more far-ranging survey to get a general sense of areas that are truly bad off for specific carriers. That being said, I know that the options for pulling this sort of thing off are somewhat limited. If you can find a phone for each carrier that can be reliably put into survey/diagnostic mode, it may be enough to send students out and about with their marching orders and a list of rooms, recording signal-related information for each carrier. Then there is the option of investing in the likes of these sorts of tools: * http://www.3gforensics.co.uk/products/site-survey/itemlist/category/11-csurv-m-tek * http://www.tessco.com/products/displayProducts.do?groupId=700&subgroupId=05 But then you have a different level of investment and technical skill at work. Has anyone else on the list gone down the road of self-surveying for cell coverage on a grand scale, and how did you do it? And was it worth the effort? Thanks as always, -Lee Badman ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
