Site Heat Map coverage

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Hi All,

Wondering if there is any solution or tool available where I could see report of the heat map from installed APs on site?

Kind Regards,
Piotr

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have you used our Wifi Designer site survey tool? While it is separate from cnMaestro it is a useful planning tool for our wifi products. It is a free tool:

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Hi Jim,

Thanks for reply. Is there any chance to see the post deployment coverage using Wi-Fi Designer in any chance?

Kind Regards,
Piotr Charkiewicz

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wifi designer is more of a stand alone tool for pre-planning so unfortunately not. Are you able to gather RSSI values from your installed AP’s to get an idea of coverage that is existing? If your client devices are seeing the AP signal strength in the -60dBm range +/-10dB this is optimal. You don’t want your client devices to be seeing very low signal from your AP’s (-70 or less) as the throughput will be lower, but you also don’t want your client devices to see extremely strong signals either as then you might have too many AP’s in one area and AP to AP interference can occur without proper RF channel planning.

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Hi Jim,

Thanks for coming back. That would make sense. I was thinking if you could advise for the best approach to enable multiple SSIDs on the site. Let say we have few cnPilot and Enterprise XV APs. From business requirements we would need to enable 4 SSIDs on the sites, so basically each AP will advertise 4 SSIDs.

Kind Regards,
Piotr

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Hi Piotr, yes, this can be done by creating multiple wireless wlans. If you are using cnMaestro, then create the WLANs and add them to your AP Group.

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Hi Gary,

Thanks. I am more thinking from the perspective of performance and efficiency. If 4 SSIDs will be broadcasted from same AP, how much efficiency I would lose. Would be there maybe some better solution. Maybe use of ePSK, so one general PSK would be used for all users for specific department but let say different department would be able to use same SSID but by using ePSK they will be placed on separate VLAN. Not sure if that would be right approach.

Kind Regards,
Piotr