Chapter 1. Collect Information for the Site Survey

Conducting a wireless site survey is the final step of a carefully planned journey. Before rushing to the facility to be surveyed with your laptop and some access points (APs), however, you must collect information about the purpose of the required wireless coverage. This chapter helps you prepare for this site survey by listing the pieces of information that you need to collect before meeting your customer and planning the survey itself.

Identify Customer Requirements

One of the most obvious tasks of the site survey preparation is to consider the customer requirements. By conducting a site survey today, you may have to deploy a new network or perhaps update an existing network (built in the ...

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