Worth Data 802 RF user manual Performance Issues, Evaluating your area of planned operation

Chapter 4

Performance Issues

Evaluating your area of planned operation

Since every operational environment is different, it is impossible for us to tell you exactly what equipment you need and where you should put it to achieve maximum performance from your RF System. However, since access points are very inexpensive, you should be able to obtain whatever coverage you need. In a typical warehouse, a terminal should be able to achieve communication within about 150 feet of an access point. If you are planning the wiring of a new installation, you will want to lay out your access points so that there is overlap.

Below is a 300 ft. by 500 ft. warehouse area with access points positioned to provide planned coverage over the entire area. You do a site test by positioning one access point in each location and verifying that the projected area of coverage is actually attained. (You don't have to be connected to the network to do this site test; you only need to supply power to the Access Point).

If you have difficulty somewhere in the area, as long as that area is in an area of overlapped coverage that a different position of the Access Point

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