Network Infrastructure · Service 03 of 11
Wireless Networks.
Most bad Wi-Fi was not installed badly. It was designed by guesswork, with access points placed where the ceiling was convenient rather than where the coverage was needed.
Businesses whose staff work away from a desk: warehouses, plants, clinics, retail floors, and offices where people expect a call to survive the walk to a meeting room.
Coverage maps drawn in an office are fiction. Concrete, racking, foil backed insulation, elevator shafts and the stock you put on the shelves in October all absorb signal in ways a floor plan cannot predict. So we survey the actual building, with the actual racking in it, and produce a heatmap before anyone quotes an access point count.
Density matters more than raw coverage on most sites. A warehouse with three access points can show signal everywhere and still fall over when forty scanners hit it at shift change. We design around how many clients you have and what they are doing, not around the number of bars on a phone.
Then it gets secured properly. Guest traffic separated from your network rather than sharing it. Modern authentication instead of a passphrase that walked out with an employee two years ago. And we validate after install, so what we hand over is what we promised rather than what we assumed.
- A predictive design first, then a real on-site survey. The building always disagrees with the drawing.
- Access point count and placement sized to client density and application, not to floor area.
- Cabling, mounting, configuration and security handled under one scope, so nothing falls between trades.
- A post-install validation survey, so coverage is proven rather than assumed.
Questions
Wireless Networks, answered honestly.
Why do we need a site survey? Can you not quote from the floor plan?
We can, and it will be wrong. Building materials change everything: concrete cores, metal racking, foil backed insulation, cold rooms. A predictive design gets you into the neighbourhood, a real survey gets the right number of access points into the right places. It is a small cost that stops you buying hardware you do not need, or discovering dead zones after handover.
Our Wi-Fi drops when the warehouse gets busy. Is that a coverage problem?
Usually not. It is almost always density. The signal is fine, but too many clients are competing for the same radio. Adding another access point in the dead corner will not fix it. The design has to account for how many devices are on at peak and what they are doing.
Can you improve cell signal as well as Wi-Fi?
Yes. LTE and 5G boosters are a separate system solving a different problem: your staff and visitors having no bars inside a concrete building. We survey and install those too, often alongside the Wi-Fi so there is one visit and one cable pull instead of two.
Related
Often done at the same time.
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