Ensuring robust and reliable WiFi connectivity is crucial for businesses of all sizes. Performance Networks offers professional WiFi survey services designed to identify and address common issues such as weak signal strength, interference, dead zones, overcrowded networks, and security vulnerabilities. Our experts conduct thorough site surveys to analyse your current network setup, optimise access point placement, mitigate interference, and provide solutions to support a high density of devices. We also implement advanced security measures to protect your network. After the survey, you’ll receive a detailed report with actionable insights and tailored recommendations to enhance your network’s performance and reliability. Contact us today to schedule your WiFi survey.
What is a WiFi survey?
High-performance WiFi is no longer a luxury but a necessity. Whether for a small business or a vast corporate office, a perfect wireless network plays a critical role in the smooth operation of all modern business WiFi.
One way to ensure optimal wireless network performance is through a WiFi site survey. A comprehensive site survey can help identify potential interference, dead spots and coverage issues, offering a proactive fix to WiFi problems before they even arise.
In simple terms, a WiFi site survey is a thorough analysis of a location to determine the optimal installation of WiFi access points (APs). The primary purpose is to ensure reliable and consistent WiFi coverage in all necessary areas. There are typically three types of WiFi surveys:
- Predictive – these use software to map out a virtual model of a site. It’s an initial estimation and isn’t as precise as the other types
- Active – these measure the real-world signal strength and data throughput of a WiFi network
- Passive – these listen to all WiFi traffic to assess the overall radio frequency environment and detect interference
Key components of a typical site survey include spectrum analysis, signal strength measurement and interference detection. Each plays a unique role in providing a complete picture of the wireless landscape, helping to create the best possible network. If you are looking for a reliable in-depth WiFi survey, speak to our team today.
Benefits Of WiFi Surveys
There are many benefits of conducting a WiFi site survey. With optimal network performance at its core, a WiFi survey can drastically improve coverage and user experience. By identifying areas of potential interference, the survey ensures a more streamlined connection for all users, enhancing security in the process. In terms of cost savings, a survey can lead to significant optimisation by efficiently planning network installations, minimising the risk of costly future alterations. It’s an invaluable tool for network design and expansion, troubleshooting and diagnosing network issues, and meeting compliance and regulatory requirements. Whether you want a complete network over haul or you have niggling issues you would like to get to the bottom of, our site surveys can help.
When Is A WiFi Site Survey Needed?
A WiFi site survey is needed in a range of scenarios, including the following:
Office expansions
Determine optimal access point placement and coverage
Building renovations
Identify changes in the environment that affect WiFi signal propagation
Network upgrades
Evaluate current performance and design an upgraded network.
Troubleshooting existing issues
Identify and resolve WiFi network problems
Organisations operating in many sectors can benefit from a WiFi survey, from healthcare and education to warehousing and retail. They are particularly useful in spaces looking to enhance the visitor experience and enable location-based services, including shopping centres, hotels, airports, sports venues and restaurants.
WiFi Survey Software
Figuring out the specific type of survey you need is an essential first step when considering WiFi implementation. Our team will provide a WiFi survey which is bespoke to your needs. It could be purely a fault-finding survey, or perhaps primarily a fault-finding one focusing on areas that lack coverage. Or you could be looking to expand network coverage, calling for a part network design. Alternatively, you may require a WiFi design survey. This could involve an off-plan desktop design for a building not yet occupied or a currently owned building that serves as a blank canvas. Here, the application of Access Points on a Stick (APoaS) could be essential – a method involving an onsite presence using a variety of access points to test the specific layout. This approach is particularly valuable when dealing with warehouse environments or urban office layouts, where factors such as mounting or aesthetics are important. In these instances, identifying points where there is a potential loss of signal, due to walls, floors and warehouse racking, is invaluable when designing a new WiFi network. A well-considered design is a robust foundation on which the rest of a network can be built. This streamlines the process and can result in substantial savings on hardware and software licences. The goal is to use the least amount of hardware that meets the specified requirements since having too many access points can be just as detrimental as having too few. The balance needs to be just right. Performance Networks have years of experience in all different environments, let us put this experience to good use and ensure you have the right WiFi set up with a WiFi survey.
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WiFi Site Survey
At Performance Networks we have substantial experience in conducting WiFi surveys, in various different industries and buildings be it a stadium, conference centre, offices, warehouse or manufacturing plant. We have the necessary tools and resources for a successful WiFi survey. Our specialists are equipped with up-to-date software and hardware tools, to enable them to produce a comprehensive, accessible survey that both technical and non-technical people can understand and act upon. A good WiFi survey goes beyond just providing a heatmap of coverage. Modern challenges often stem from over-coverage or configuration issues, rather than lack of coverage. Once a survey is conducted, we can put this into a plan going forward, we will highlight any areas of concern with easy to understand findings that will show out of date hardware, any signs of interference and suggestions for implementing solutions for solutions such as network segmentation.
What Our Customers Are Saying
"We were grateful that Performance Networks pulled out all the stops to deliver a project within a very tight timescale and to budget. From the planning to the implementation, the Performance Network team worked closely with the BISC IT team, ensuring what was provided best suited the BISC’s needs. And even when things did not go to plan, the Performance Networks team adapted quickly to the new situation and came up with alternative approaches which delivered the same objectives to the same cost. The rural location and older buildings with their associated infrastructure make any BISC IT project a challenge, but Performance Networks overcame every obstacle without hesitation, delivered as promised and followed up with post-implementation support which was unfailing. We would happily turn to Performance Networks again for future projects."
"From the first point of contact Performance Networks have been amazing. They are extremely knowledgeable when it comes to networks and WiFi and are able to turn a complex topic into something simple and easy to understand. I can’t recommend them enough to anyone who needs a new network or is experiencing performance or connectivity issues with their existing network."
"Performance Networks’ knowledge and expertise on WiFi solutions were invaluable to us during this huge and complex upscale project, and we are delighted with the work they have completed over the last few months.” “We’re really pleased to have completed this project, which is quite an undertaking and brings the technical infrastructure of our 19th century Palace very much up to speed with modern-day requirements."
"Performance Networks resolved a complex ongoing WiFi issue in one visit; they are fast to respond and highly professional. We have since engaged them for further WiFi consultancy and thoroughly recommend their services."
"WiFi is now only an issue if it’s not available – and these occasions have been very few and far between. Access Points are remotely monitored so that Performance Networks can inform management if there is a problem even before they’re aware. Guests have a support line to call in case of difficulty. Performance Networks has helped Ragdale Hall to update its infrastructure to meet the requirements of the business, which is more and more reliant on technology. Guests and suppliers want instant communication, they need banks to provide immediate authorisations. All of this depends upon a stable platform, with excellent response when issues arise. As with WiFi, Ragdale Hall’s staff are only concerned when the technology gets in the way of providing outstanding customer service. Performance Networks have provided that stability and have been pro-active in ensuring that Ragdale Hall maintains and improves its systems."
"I have worked with several WiFi providers over 15 years at CCT, and Performance Networks are the only one who have truly understood the needs of our organisation. With three large conference centres that experience high guest footfall, our WiFi requirements are significant. Performance Networks have delivered a solution that meets our needs fully. I’ve been really impressed with their service after the installation too. They monitor our entire network and their support is second-to-none, proactively identifying and resolving issues before we’re even aware of them! I’m confident to say that our WiFi is sector-leading, which has a huge impact on guest experience."
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