Even the most expensive enterprise Wi-Fi equipment can fail under poor design. Here are seven mistakes we frequently encounter during site audits, along with ways to address them.
Seven typical mistakes
- Placing access points without a site survey, simply choosing the middle of the ceiling
- Leaving 5 GHz channel planning entirely to automation and creating channel conflicts
- Sharing one SSID across 2.4 and 5 GHz without addressing clients choosing the slower band
- Failing to logically separate the guest network from the internal network
- Leaving transmit power at maximum and causing interference between cells
- Not sizing PoE switch capacity against access-point requirements
- Freezing firmware updates and missing patches for known vulnerabilities
Quick improvements
A proper site survey and carefully adjusted transmit power can resolve many performance problems. On some projects, optimization alone reduced user complaints by 80%, without buying new access points.
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