Planning AP Location
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Planning AP Location
It is a good practice to conduct a sitesurvey to assess coverage area and look for problem
areas such as poor RF coverage or high retries. Fortinet enables customers to easily com-
plete a sitesurvey right from within the FAP-U422EV.
Sitesurvey
Fortinet sitesurvey is a simple tool that aids in network planning to find the right placement
(mounting location) of APs such that clients connected to these APs receive high throughput,
excellent coverage. To find the right placement of your AP, connect your Wi-Fi client to the AP
that is in the sitesurvey mode and move around the deployment perimeter to identify areas
that provide good connectivity (based on the results from the sitesurvey tool) to the Wi-Fi cli-
ent. You can adjust the placement of the AP depending on the sitesurvey results.
FAP-U422EV has a built in mechanism to perform a sitesurvey of a 11ac network that provide
you with true validation of AP placement and RF coverage. Some of the benefits of using the
sitesurvey features include:
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Fast and easy way to validate 11ac design
