14CHAPTER 2: CONDUCTING A SITE SURVEY
Viewing Access | Select Known APs in the View menu to display APs in range of the target wireless |
Point Info | client. Use the Known APs dialog box to view the AP BSSID, number of associated |
| wireless clients, wireless client type, and status and data rate. An icon next to each |
| AP indicates whether the AP is mandatory or preferred and if the AP is associated. |
| A list of APs within range of the wireless client is also shown. Select an AP and |
| right click to change the AP type to Mandatory or Roaming. Click the Rates button |
| to display the Transmission Rates dialog box. Use the Transmission Rates dialog |
| box to set the transmission rate to 1Mb, 2Mb, 5.5Mb or 11Mb. Checking multiple |
| rates defaults the wireless client to a lower rate if the higher rate AP association |
| cannot be established. At least one rate is required. |
Viewing Mobile Unit | Select Noise Meter in the View menu to display a graph of relative signal strength |
Noise Info | indicator (RSSI) values and channel numbers. Use the Noise Meter dialog box to |
| view the wireless client BSSID and the RSSI minimum, maximum, and average |
| values. The RSSI values displayed in the graph are continuously updated with the |
| last 6 received values displayed in blue. Click Reset to reset the graph to zero and |
| begin a new display as RSSI values are received. |
Viewing Mobile Unit | Select Signal Quality in the View menu to display the percentage of missed |
Signal Quality Info | beacons, the percentage of transmission retries and the percentage of CRC errors |
| logged during the ping test. Use the Signal Quality dialog box to display the |
| strength of the radio signal transmitted by an AP. This information is useful in |
| determining if the trial site survey AP placement locations are effective for |
| providing radio coverage to the proposed radio coverage area. |
Navigating the | The Site Survey utility Area menu contains New, Select, Clear Log Contents, Edit |
Area Menu | Notes, Run ICMP Test, and Run WNMP Test menu items. |
| Use the menu items to create and edit a site survey area, view the settings of a |
| survey area, clear a site survey log, edit or delete notes in a survey log, and start |
| and stop ICMP and WNMP tests. |
Creating a New | Select New in the Area menu to display a Site Survey Area dialog box. Use the Site |
Survey Area | Survey dialog box for entering a survey area name and description. If a workspace |
| is already open, you are prompted to save the existing workspace. Click OK to |
| display the new workspace name. |
Selecting and Editing an | Click Select in the Area menu to display the Site Survey Area List dialog box. Use |
Existing Survey Area | the Site Survey Area List dialog box to display a list and description of survey areas. |
| Select an area and click Edit Area to display the Site Survey Area dialog box. Add |
| new tests and survey area descriptions as needed. Click OK to save the changes to |
| the site survey workspace. Click Delete to remove the area from the current site |
| survey workspace. |
Clearing the Text File | Use the Clear Log Contents option to delete the log contents for the active survey |
Log for an Open | workspace. |
Survey Area |
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