wifi site survey

WiFi Site Survey Sooner or later, you will get involved with a wireless site survey. The 2 typical scenarios that is the catalyst would be troubleshooting or implementation. The support scenario is straight forward; someone complains their Wi-Fi is dropping off or slow, so you go out there to test for yourself or to witness the issue first hand. I think the implementation reason is far more critical since this is when the WiFi system is deployed and you can document the baseline radio statistics as well as throughput, etc. I have covered these topics in the past, but its been a while so I will review one basic concept. There are 2 basics types of surveys; Passive and Active. Passive survey records whatever that radio can hear, no connection or access point authentication is required. Active surveys require you to successfully authenticate, join or connect and then perform a task, like ping, iperf, etc. In the video I show you a simple windows batch file you can use to perform both types of survey. Keep in mind that if all you need is a passive survey, disabling and enabling your Wifi adapter is not required. You might consider running these commands manually or the script from the clients laptop to gather more troubleshooting data. Another approach is to run it as a scheduled task to determine if there a pattern when the complaint happens. since youtube doesn't like most special characters, go to www.networkdatapedia.com for the batch file ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkyAlhTchc0