NPort W2150/2250 Plus Series User’s Manual Web Console: System Monitoring
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The WLAN Site Survey page is located under System Status in the System Monitoring folder.
This is where you can view live data on wireless signal strength and characteristics. It is useful
tool to help you complete a wireless site survey without installing additional software.
The goal of a WLAN site survey is to determine the number and placement of access points to
provide enough coverage to the facility. For most implementations, "enough coverage" means that
the data rate at all locations does not fall below a certain threshold. For most wireless sites, it is
necessary to perform a WLAN site survey before access point installation in order to determine the
behavior of radio waves at the site.
Typical WLAN Site Survey
Procedure
1. Download/install site survey software.
2. Run software on laptop.
3. Measure AP signal strength using software on
laptop.
Weakness
y Signal strength is read from the laptop NIC
rather than from NPort
WLAN Site Survey with
NPort W2150/W2250 Plus Series
Procedure
1. Open web browser
2. Measure AP signal from NPort web console.
Advantages
y Signal strength is read from NPort
y Additional software not required
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