knilb
08-05-2008, 10:46 AM
I need some advice on outdoor panel AP placement where multiple APs are clustered together with beams slighlty overlapping or alternately where they are separated-- but the beams cross other (i.e.- being perpendicular to each other).
I'm trying to determine the best location to place some outdoor, flat-panel access points (~100 ft from building/user) to minimize interference from each other. I have an existing setup that works well with no physically overlapping AP beams or channels. Now I need to add another AP to cut down on the bandwidth going through each AP (which have 5Mb limit). Problem is its going cause the beams to overlap and I'm trying to determine the best way to minimize this.
QUESTION: Is it better to have APs side by side with some beam overlap (beamwidth is 20 or 33 degrees, depending on polarization) or further apart--- but with the beams crossing each other? Would altering the polarization in either senario help at all? See pix of layout:
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I have an ' L' shaped, 9 story building which I currently light up for public Wi-Fi access with 7 outdoor, flat-panel Tranzeo APs and a Nomadix gateway. There are 4 APs pointed at the West and South sides of the building. For the back side two wings of the building I have 3 non overlapping APs clustered at the north-east corner of the property pointed W, SW, and E (see attachment). I need to add another AP for this area-- should I keep them clustered (the beam width will cause them to over lap) or split them further apart, placing 2 pointing directly South and 2 pointing directly West (with 2 beams perpendicular to the other 2 beams).
AP specs are here: http://www.tranzeo.com//products/docs/TR6xxxF.pdf
I'm trying to determine the best location to place some outdoor, flat-panel access points (~100 ft from building/user) to minimize interference from each other. I have an existing setup that works well with no physically overlapping AP beams or channels. Now I need to add another AP to cut down on the bandwidth going through each AP (which have 5Mb limit). Problem is its going cause the beams to overlap and I'm trying to determine the best way to minimize this.
QUESTION: Is it better to have APs side by side with some beam overlap (beamwidth is 20 or 33 degrees, depending on polarization) or further apart--- but with the beams crossing each other? Would altering the polarization in either senario help at all? See pix of layout:
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I have an ' L' shaped, 9 story building which I currently light up for public Wi-Fi access with 7 outdoor, flat-panel Tranzeo APs and a Nomadix gateway. There are 4 APs pointed at the West and South sides of the building. For the back side two wings of the building I have 3 non overlapping APs clustered at the north-east corner of the property pointed W, SW, and E (see attachment). I need to add another AP for this area-- should I keep them clustered (the beam width will cause them to over lap) or split them further apart, placing 2 pointing directly South and 2 pointing directly West (with 2 beams perpendicular to the other 2 beams).
AP specs are here: http://www.tranzeo.com//products/docs/TR6xxxF.pdf