Our company is building a new facility and I am trying to design our physical network. My question is, what should I take into consideration when figuring out where to place Wireless AP's? I saw on one wireless vendor's web site that you can get 54Mbps up to 65ft(20m) from the AP and an omni-directional antenna could boost that by 20-25%. Does this sound about standard? Is there some kind of rule-of-thumb I can use to account for walls or number of users when placing the AP's?
I was thinking that I would try and make it so that no one is more than say 60ft from an AP and that there wouldn't be more than about a half dozen on one AP under normal circumstances. But even so, there may be places where the signal would have to go through about three or four walls.
Any help will be appreciated!
I was thinking that I would try and make it so that no one is more than say 60ft from an AP and that there wouldn't be more than about a half dozen on one AP under normal circumstances. But even so, there may be places where the signal would have to go through about three or four walls.
Any help will be appreciated!