A site survey is critical when planning a WLAN. This will discover any areas that do not get appropriate coverage, and it also allows planning for channel roaming. In the US, there are only 3 non-overlapping channels (1,6, and 11) in the 802.11B/G specification. If any of the cells overlap using the same channel, a drop-out will likely occur.
________________________________ Michael LaForge Network Administrator Columbia Memorial Hospital 518.828.8030 Fax: 518.828.8370 -----Original Message----- From: Gearry Judkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 3:37 PM To: Jay Gilmore Cc: 'MEDITECH-L' Subject: Re: [MEDITECH-L] Wireless Cart Lockups Jay Gilmore wrote: > For those of you who have wireless carts at your hospital, how often do your > users lose connectivity on the carts? When our wireless network was new we had serious problems with session dropouts. We discovered two problems. 1) The installer had installed many of the antennas for the WAPs in the wrong orientation. Thus, our signals were nothing like what had been designed. 2) We had to update all wireless client drivers and firmware on the network infrastructure. This was with Cisco equipment. Since we updated all of that software dropped sessions have been very rare. If I can be of any further assistance, please let me know. Gearry Judkins Information Systems Franklin Community Health Network ====================================== All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments. The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com ______________________________________ meditech-l mailing list meditech-l@MTUsers.com http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l ====================================== All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments. The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com ______________________________________ meditech-l mailing list meditech-l@MTUsers.com http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l
