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Wireless access points: Placement checklist


Tom Lancaster
02.07.2006
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When you're planning to deploy wireless or tweak your existing deployment, the conventional wisdom states that you need a "site survey." Most wireless vendors are now offering very sophisticated tools that practically do the survey for you, but if you're trying to locate the best places to put your wireless access points (WAPs) manually, the trick is to keep the following three key relationships in mind (most of w

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hich are fairly obvious, but this can serve as a checklist):

Relation to users:

Relation to the facilities:

Relation to other WAPs:


Tom Lancaster, CCIE# 8829 CNX# 1105, is a consultant with 15 years experience in the networking industry, and co-author of several books on networking, most recently, CCSPTM: Secure PIX and Secure VPN Study Guide published by Sybex.

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