@palmtree wrote:
We recently upgraded our shop and added a couple of Meraki APs. Wireless performance has been pretty bad. Support keeps pushing us to perform a site survey; is this actually required?
Site surveys are a good idea. That being said, this is a pretty opened question with a TON of different directions to go. What exactly is poor about the performance? Slow speeds (LAN, WAN, or both?), disconnection, etc.?
- AP Placement?
- Building design?
- MR model?
- Network topology with make/models of switches/router?
- RF setup? (channel width, power, channel settings, DFS, etc.)
- SSID setup? (L3 roaming, Meraki DHCP, etc.)
Knowing some of this info may point us in the right direction for troubleshooting. Effective WiFi design and setup is incredibly complex - especially when multiple APs are setup.
BHC Resorts IT Department