Ekahau Wireless Setup
Before deploying an Ekahau WLAN Controller and about 19 access points. Another vendor was working on a separate project that relied on the wireless network. They initially walked through the building with their wireless phones stating dropped areas.
The Ekahau Site Survey purchase included the USB Adapter for the survey and the software. It supports Windows 7 and 8 and you need at least 6GB of RAM or more. Sorry OS X users.
Before Starting
Some time recently we hop into arranging a remote arrange arrangement, there are some things to consider. For one, you wish a floor arrange. Without it, you cannot do anything else. Obtain the floor arrange from facilities. After adding the floor arrange to Ekahau Location Overview, you must set the scale. This is often critical. The application has no thought what the length of a divider is, or a window, or how huge the property is.
Another reason for setting the scale is for the application to properly calculate things such as free space way misplaced and other wireless survey calculations. In expansion to setting the scale you wish to lay out the dividers. In a ordinary office environment typically dry divider but there are numerous alternatives to choose from. Select the divider fabric, tap where the divider is on the floor arrange – starting to conclusion – and right press to stamp the conclusion of the divider.
Characterizing the dividers on your floor arrange will offer assistance make an exact arrange as Ekahau Location Overview calculates wifi flag proliferation.
Did you gathered the client’s requirements such as where there needs to be wireless coverage, how many wireless clients are expected on this network, any QoS requirements?
Capacity Requirements
How do we know in case our remote organize will bolster the capacity? Able to assess this by contributing gadgets into the Capacity Prerequisites window. Include in how numerous wifi gadgets you accept will be on the arrange and what sort. It’s straight forward but the sum of gadgets you put in will influence the result.
Coverage Requirements
What is the conclusion client anticipating from the remote organize? Are the necessities fair e-mail and web utilization? Is it attending to be tall utilization? Possibly voice is essentially utilizing the remote arrange? Anything the necessities are, accumulate them from your conclusion client.
Set the Coverage Requirements by clicking on Project and then clicking on Coverage Requirements.
Ekahau Site Survey includes a handful of template requirements which you can select from and tune. The Criteria you can set is the following:
- Signal Strength
- SNR
- Data rate
- RTO
Auto-Planner
Once you’ve performed the activities over, it’s time to arrange. Ekahau Location Study incorporates a highlight called Auto-Planner. This arrange is based on the scope and capacity necessities you already arranged. Get to focuses are naturally put on the floor arrange to optimize channels and minimize channel interference.
First, characterize the scope zone by clicking on the Scope Region button at that point characterize the region on the floor arrange. The chosen scope zone will be shown in purple (lilac to be precise). Right tap to conclusion the scope range and you’ll see a bordered sprint line.
Click Auto-Planner button.
Define the Coverage and Capacity requirements that you had previously configured.
Under Access Point you have the option of selecting a Generic AP or you can click on the drop down to select another vendor such as Aruba, Cisco, Linksys.
Enable the Advanced settings and modify the Transmit power and Antenna height as necessary.
Under Channel patterns. Selection of channels will depend on your country standards.
When you are ready click on Create Plan.
If you are not happy with the placement of access points on the map you have the ability to move them around as you see fit. You can also change the type of antenna on the access point list.
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