WLAN Health Check Survey

Is your wireless network not performing the way your business needs it to? Do you have interference, dropouts, poor throughput and connection issues? Or are you just after peace of mind and reassurance that your wireless network is operating to its highest levels?

Our WiFi site surveys are an invaluable tool in diagnosing problematic wireless networks. From wireless network dropouts, discovering hidden nodes, frequency interference, WiFi rogue access points and many more hazards to wireless networks, we can ensure that your wireless network starts to perform.

Performing a wireless survey on an existing wireless network is a great way to baseline your wireless performance. As the environment in which your WiFi network exists is forever changing, performing a wireless health check can highlight RF issues before they become a problem.

• Poor Performance / Throughput
• RF Interference
• Find WiFi Rogue Access Points
• Locate Dead Spots
• WiFi Security Weaknesses
• WiFi Client Connection Problems

Poor Performance and Throughput

Are your WiFi clients experiencing poor performance on your wireless network? There may be a serious problem causing your low throughput that is starting to have an impact on your business.

Spectrum Analysis / RF Interference

A full spectrum analysis will include detection, measurement and recording of the presence of RF Interference that could degrade the performance of a wireless network. Interference such as microwaves, PIR sensors, Bluetooth and legacy wireless devices can have a serious impact on your WiFi network.

Find Rogue Access Points

WiFi Rogue access points are a serious threat to the security of your wireless network and corporate data. If you don't have full wireless coverage throughout your building a WiFi rogue access point is usually installed by someone who is simply looking for the same convenience and flexibility at work that they've grown accustomed to using on their own home wireless network.

Locate Wireless Dead Spots

Dead spots in your wireless network can sometimes be hard to find and can be the result of a poorly designed WiFi network or a change in the RF environment. Our wireless health check will map out all of the coverage holes in your WiFi network allowing us to help you design more redundancy into your network design.

Security Weaknesses

WiFi security is at the top of everyone's agenda at present, and that should be no different for your wireless network. WEP and WPA are no longer acceptable in a corporate environment and our wireless survey will highlight your security weaknesses so that we can give you the right recommendations to secure your data!

The Health Check Survey documentation will include:

• Maps of the WiFi RF coverage.
• Detection, measurement and recording of the presence of RF Interference that could degrade the performance of a wireless network.
• Diagnostics of common WiFi problems - Hidden Node, Near Far, Sticky Client etc.
• Recommendations for fault resolution.

No wireless survey is complete without spectrum analysis!

Having the ability to perform a spectrum analysis and work out what is going on in your RF environment is paramount to locating the invisible interference in your WiFi network.

All of your wireless surveys include a scan for interference which enables us to baseline your RF environment. You will be surprised how many devices can be found operating within the WLAN frequency range that will be having an effect on your wireless network.

Each wireless health check is customized to your specific needs. Depending on the size and complexity of your network, the WLAN Health Check requires between 1 and 3 days of services. Before beginning the health check, DigitalAir Wireless will enter into a consultancy phase with you to enable you to gain the most out of your wireless health check.

If you would like more information about a wireless survey health check please use the contact us page or give a call.

New Network Wireless Survey

Conducting a wireless survey is essential to correctly implement a WiFi network with 99.999% availability. Too many WiFi networks simply do not work as intended or under-perform. Conducting a professional wireless site survey will save a business both time and money in the long term.

Using the latest industry tools, and techniques to map out wireless radio frequency coverage of an intended area; we then provide clients with complete documentation on all aspects of the survey. Only after a professionally conducted wireless survey, will customers be equipped to create a fully scalable and secure wireless network.

Detailed in the site survey reports (details below) a complete breakdown of the hardware required to achieve a successful wireless network. This can be of considerable value for network managers that need to allocate a budget in the future. We can conduct a survey with any wireless manufacturer's hardware in mind which is essential for the network design.

Coverage Maps

Wireless surveys display and record information from all the key areas of a wireless network including received signal strengths, access point locations, RF interference and noise levels. The reported information enables optimisation of ‘access point’ channels choices of antenna's, AP transmit power levels and locations creating a more effective wireless network.

Unique software and techniques work in any environment, supporting all WiFi (IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac) networks.

If required a wireless network prediction is performed in mapping out RF coverage of offices, saving the cost of initial wireless network viability analysis.

Spectrum Analysis / RF Interference

A full spectrum analysis will include detection, measure and recording of the presence of RF Interference that could degrade the performance of a wireless network. Interference such as microwaves, PIR sensors, Bluetooth and legacy wireless devices can have a profound impact on a wireless network.

• RF Interference
• Measurement of SNR
• RF power peaks
• WiFi Channel interference
• WiFi Channel Overlap

Wireless site surveys include the following:

• Detection, measure and recording of the presence of RF Interference that could degrade the performance of a wireless network.
• Calculate the WiFi supported data rates that can be expected throughout the premises.
• Access point locations
• Wireless bridge locations
•  Antenna's and other wireless equipment.
• Co-location of WiFi access points with channel selection and reuse.
• Information such as; antenna selection, orientation and polarisation.
• Look for signs of, reflection, refraction, multipath, hidden nodes, dead spots etc.

Wireless site survey documentation includes:

• Detailed information on the data gathered from the survey
• Photographs the location of all wireless equipment.
• Maps of the WiFi RF coverage.
• Details of RF interference.
• WiFi Equipment list.

Why take the chance of failing with a WiFi network before starting? Call the wireless experts who deliver every expectation of a wireless network.