Lee, We've worked with our cellular carriers by having their contractors come on site and survey the building(s) in question. Based on the results, antenna's and repeaters were installed to provide coverage.
-jack From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lee H Badman Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 1:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Cell/mobile broadband in-building survey tools? 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/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
