On the heels of WLPC Phoenix 2023 First, a few initial thoughts before jumping into sessions’ sound bites… WLPC 2023 introduced 20-min talks, giving speakers more time to go deeper into their topic and share more data. As all talks were voted on by the community, there was already a hunger to hear more about these…
AP Colour Update in Ekahau AI Pro 11.1.1 Previously, I wrote about the ability to customize report templates in Ekahau Pro using AP colours: With the release of Ekahau AI Pro 11.1.1 on October 13th, 2022, three (3) new colours were added to provide even more options for WLAN professionals to tag and differentiate APs. The three…
Accuracy Setting Change in Ekahau AI Pro Previously, in Ekahau Pro, WLAN professionals had the ability to define how far from a measured point Ekahau could make an educated guess to generate a heat map. This distance was defined as an accuracy setting and could be selected as any one of the following values: Accuracy…
Juniper’s Take on Real-World 6GHz Performance At Mobility Field Day 7, Juniper presented on Wi-Fi 6E (6GHz) design and its adoption in the real world based on several months of data collected from the field. One thing that stood out was the contrast between uplink and downlink for 6GHz devices. In the downstream direction, Juniper demonstrated…
Wall Attenuation Reporting The recent release of AI Pro from Ekahau now supports wall types with the option to configure unique wall attenuation values per band. This is a welcome feature addition, but immediately after seeing this feature I wondered how to include this information in custom template reports to document the configured wall type attenuation…
Where did “My APs” Go You may have noticed that “My APs” and “Other APs” are no longer in Ekahau AI Pro. While true, the concept behind “My APs” and “Other APs” is still there. We can accomplish the same grouping using AP colour tags. Think of the old “My APs” tag as a colour……
The ability to change the colour of AP icons was added in the release of Ekahau Pro version 10.3.1. This can be done by entering the AP edit menu and selecting the desired colour. APs can be modified one at a time or by bulk selection of APs. Bulk selection can easily be accomplished using the “Quick Select” feature to…
There are many complicated techniques that can be employed to measure the attenuation values of various building materials to use within a predictive RF design. As fun and exciting as they can be, this post will explain a process to measure wall attenuation using the latest release of the Ekahau Survey v2.0 app for iOS. This technique can be…
Have you ever been stumped trying to figure what wall attenuation value to simulate in your predictive RF designs? Have you wondered if reinforced concrete is “thicker” then a wall constructed with masonry bricks? The chart below summarizes relative attenuation values from common building materials as tested by NIST way back in 1997. Shockingly, concrete yields…
Wi-Fi Design Resources v4 This is a list of Wi-Fi resources I have found myself referring to many times: Understanding Wi-Fi Visualizing Waves Gjermund’s Airtime Calculator Fourier transform (“simple” explanation) Fourier transform (“less simple” explanation) Wi-Fi Client Capabilities Clients.MikeAlbano.com RSSI Compared DFS Testing DFS Pulse/Signal Generation (from NutsAboutNets) DFS Testing Results Software Defined Radios (SDR)…
