You have to mount them in-room, and likely every or every-other room depending on the wall makeup between them.
My campus is made of nothing but plastered walls with metal mesh, compounded by the internal construction which is mainly reinforced block/concrete. This was a curse in the early WiFi days when we just wanted coverage. We’ve long since moved to dense in-room AP deployment and it’s a huge benefit. It’s the best RF gift imaginable, it just forces a more-costly design that most desire to use anyway. Jeff From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> on behalf of John Rodkey <[email protected]> Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, August 28, 2017 at 9:20 PM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Plastered buildings How do you deal with buildings that have plaster and fine metal mesh enclosing them? We have placed access points on the exterior of the building, but the signal isn't getting through. The rooms all open onto an outside hallway - there is no common internal hallway. John Rodkey Director of Servers and Networks ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/discuss.
