We usually just test a few miles from a tower. A laptop, canopy, extension cord, spare parts and tools. It's not soo much fun in winter weather, but we make sure that signals are within 3-5 db of each other. We know what we should be getting from our test location, we also run a 30 second bandwidth test as well.
-Kevin On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Kristian Hoffmann <kh...@fire2wire.com> wrote: > Hi, > > We tend to get radios back from techs with notes that say something like > "bad radio" or "low signal." Things that aren't obviously broken tend > to sit around and collect dust. > > Does anyone have a efficient way to test 802.11a/b/g radios? Most of > our equipment is MikroTik, so my plan was to do a conductive test > between a known good radio and the radio in question with 80 dB or so of > attenuator stacked between them, check the rx signal on both ends, and > run a bw test for a set amount of time. Is there anything else that I > should take into consideration, or perhaps a completely different > approach? > > I was looking at these attenuators... > > http://www.minicircuits.com/pdfs/UNAT-30+.pdf > > I don't think precision is really an issue as long as they're consistent > from one test to another. > > Thanks, > > -- > Kristian Hoffmann > System Administrator > kh...@fire2wire.com > http://www.fire2wire.com > > Office - 209-543-1800 | Fax - 209-545-1469 | Toll Free - 800-905-FIRE > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
