Lee, Here at UCSF, we allow a major gsm carrier to survey and install they equipments @ our sites. We have no resource as well as proper survey tool to get the job done correctly ... at this time.
-loc ________________________________ From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jack Vizelter Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 10:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Cell/mobile broadband in-building survey tools? 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/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
