Site Survey

I want to be sure you’re completely clear about where I stand regarding site surveys. They are absolutely and vitally imperative to bringing a premium-quality—even just a reasonably viable—WLAN into this world! You should carry out a predeployment survey and a postdeployment survey, but keep in mind that your predeployment survey isn’t actually your first step to begin this key process.

So, because you positively must know how to formulate and implement a solid site survey, I’m going to walk you through executing the three major steps to doing that effectively. And just to be really thorough, I’m also going to cover some issues commonly encountered as we progress through these steps.

Information Gathering This is actually your first step, and during this stage, you must determine three key factors:

• The scope of the network, including all applications that will be used, data types that will be present, and how sensitive these data...