Proactive WiFi Testing and Monitoring

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Validate Network & Clients • Signal/RSSI is a must • Measure client hears AP • Measure how AP hears client • show controllers dot1 radio 1 | begin RSSI** • Next step is to collect actual network performance measurements • Latency • Speed up/down • DNS • Voice Quality Cisco command line protip and image credit George Stefanick @wirelesssguru
Laptop + Utilities for Validation Testing • Utilities / Apps for measuring validation metrics • Operating system adapter info • Ping • DHCPing • Speed Testers • DNS Query Tool • WiFi Scanners ($) • Survey Apps ($$$) Selected 2013 Retina MacBook Pro for this presentation • Built in WiFi Cards • Easy to find tools for testing • Audience will be able to duplicate results at work / home
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Page 3 and 4: WiFi Survey Rig / AP on a Stick Set
Page 5 and 6: Install Plan Design • Take the de
Page 7 and 8: Why Validation Is Needed: Confirm I
Page 9: Client Perspective - Why Is It Impo
Page 13 and 14: LAN/WAN Reachability and Predict Vo
Page 15 and 16: DNS Hostname Recursive Lookup Proce
Page 17 and 18: Speed Tests • Download • Upload
Page 19 and 20: Ideal Validation Conditions = testi
Page 21 and 22: Record WiFi Network Validation Meas
Page 23 and 24: Drawing Conclusions Using Network T
Page 25 and 26: Scaling and Automating Validation T
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