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Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 17:49:11 EST5EDT4,M4.1,M10.5
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From:  Lewis G Rosenthal <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
To:  os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com
Subject: [OS2Wireless] Book recommendation: Jeff Duntemann's Drive-By Wi-Fi Guide

Randy, you're gonna love this...

You (and I) do exactly as he recommends. From Chapter 4, designing your 
Wi-Fi Network, page 81:

    Predicition is mostly useless. The only way to be sure is to set up
    an access point temporarily in a prospective position, then walk
    around with a laptop running a field strength utility of some kind,
    drawing on the structure blueprints or sketch the boundaries are
    between "green" and "yellow."

I was expecting him to come out and say, "Spend your money on this XYZ 
device from ABC. Turn it on, wave it around, and voilà! Instant AP 
placement." He seems to advocate the fly-by-your-pants approach most of 
us use. He does mention about using a notebook with a "weak" antenna, to 
try to get a worst case scenario.

Randy Fowler wrote:

>On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 12:52:18 EST5EDT4,M4.1,M10.5, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:
>
>  
>
>>I'm in the middle of a the above book right now, which so far has been a 
>>wealth of information both about the history of the 802.11 standard and 
>>a practical guide about setting up small Wi-Fi networks. As a consultant 
>>out in the trenches, it's good to get some field reports about how 
>>others go about doing site surveys (for what they're worth!), 
>>    
>>
>
>Hi Lewis,
>
>I'm interested in more info on conducting site surveys. Does the author 
>cover these well? I will be ordering some testing equipment shortly and 
>the prices I've seen so far are horrible... two to three thousad 
>dollars... OUCH! And that's the low end!! <sheesh>
>
>So far, I've been using an old ThinkPad and a LinkSys WIC and WAP11.  
>Since this AP is low power, I figure it it works marginally, then it 
>should work perfectly once I add the LinkSys signal booster. So far, this 
>has been working well for me in 7 locations.  However, I have two more 
>that are much bigger and I'm going to need directional antennas, to work 
>within the 3 channel limit of 802.11b.
>
>Any suggestions in this are would be most appreciated!
>
>Randy
>
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