Ekahau antenna characteristic wall/ceiling mounting

[MK2]

Hi folks,

I am wondering about the RSSI heamap shown in Ekahau for mounting a CW9163E. The 4 omnidirectional radiators should radiate in a circular pattern, shouldn't they? I have also noticed that the wall/ceiling mounting pattern may be reversed in the MR78.

See here, left is ceiling and right is wall.
So in ceiling mount the antennas looking left an right, while in wall mount the antennas are looking up and down.

[GIdenJoe · Accepted solution]

I see your confusion.
This is an Ekahau oversight that you could raise a ticket for.

Usually with indoor AP with internal antennas you mount these at the ceiling normally.
Outdoor AP's however are usually wall/pole mounted.

So most Outdoor AP's will default to wall mount in Ekahau but show the coverage area as if the antennas are pointing up or down which is normal in wall mount outdoor AP's.  If you would ceiling mount an outdoor AP, the sticks would point horizontally and give the coverage pattern you are showing on the right.

Ekahau needs to fix it where the left one is for wall mount and the right one is for ceiling mount what no body would do.  Even then you could still by right angle N-type connectors to stil have the antennas in vertical orentation.


You can verify the antenna pattern like in the screenshot below:

[MK2]

That's right, that was the problem. I'm currently using Ekahau AI a lot for pre-planning projects and unfortunately some things don't work here as in the application.
I'll open a ticket.

[GIdenJoe]

It does remain an awesome tool.  Especially inspect mode when hunting for issues 😉
I'm hoping they will release their 3D planning stuff soon so we can start having angled surfaces and mezzanine structures on the same floor.

[TBHPTL]

Hamina...

[MK2]

Ekahau 🙂

There are quite a lot things if you're onsite that Ekahau did better than Hamina, but for planning also a good tool.