Asus X59SR-A1- Manuals

Page | 5 Table of Contents ABSTRACT ..................................................................................................................................... 2 DEDICATION ........................................................................................................................

Page | 7 Acronyms and Abbreviations WLAN Wireless Local Area Network WIFI Wireless Fidelity PDA Personal Digital Assistant WAP Wireless Access Point LAN Local Access Network SNR Signal to Noise Ratio AP Access Point ESSID Extended Service Set Identifier MAC Media Access Control

Page | 8 List of Figures Figure 1 Wi-Fi mark Figure 2 Wireless Card ................................................ 11 Figure 3: WLAN and LAN Network .................................................................................................................................... 11 Figure 4: Roa...

Page | 9 Introduction We will study the Wireless Local Access Network (WLAN). How it works. What are the requirements of this network. Where this network is more important to use. We will study also what we can do to make this kind of network better. We will focus also in this work on the WLAN`s str...

Page | 12 1.2 Roaming A critical function in a multiple-cell wireless LAN i.e. ESS, as shown in Figure (4), is roaming, which enables wireless users to move from cell to cell (one AP coverage area to another) seamlessly as you go around the office, campus, or home with the laptop with no loss in con...

Page | 13 Figure 4: Roaming 1.3 Site Survey The main purpose of a wireless site survey is to determine the number and placement of access points that provides adequate signal coverage throughout a facility or city area. With most implementations, “adequate coverage” means support of a minimum data r...

Page | 14 1.4 Site Survey Considerations If we need to conduct a site survey it is important to consider a Different of factors that could affect the performance of the Wi-Fi network [5]. It is very important to know the following considerations:  Understand the wireless concept and requirements an...

Page | 15 2. Measurements and results This chapter will deal with the practical aspects of our work; we will start this section by reviewing the tools software and hardware that we will use in our work, we will describe also how we can use these tools and where in our work, and then we will test the...

Page | 17 2.2 Work Implementation and results presentation After we presented the tools that we will need in this project, this section we will mainly describe the Wi-Fi testing process in detail in many different environments, and mention the test methods which we will use to the Wi-Fi strength. An...

Page | 18 The home environment site survey test will be done in an apartment, small and for one person apartment, the map image of this apartment is shown in figure (5). Figure 5: Home Map Image Figure (5) taken from SANDVIKENHUS´S (housing company) website. This figure illustrates house sections in...

Page | 19 The apartment contains a normal router, wireless –G Router (WGR614) from NETGEAR is shown in figure (6). We checked the router properties and we knew that this router works as an access point sends the internet signal up to 100 feet in range. Figure 6: Home Environment Router We collected ...

Page | 20 The result of the Wi-Fi strength in the home environment is shown in figure (7). Figure 7: Wi-Fi Strength in home Environment We can see in this figure the location of the access point which appears as a blue and white circle ( ). Dark blue colour on the map image indicates to the stronger...

Page | 23 2.2.2 Laboratory Environment After the first test at the home environment, we got more information about the site survey test and how the program that we chose works and what are the difficulties that we may face while doing the test. We tried all options of the program and methods to make...

Page | 24 password, then connecting to the internet directly, therefore all results of site survey tests in this project will be focused on HIG channel. The map image of the laboratory environment is shown in figure (8): Figure 8: Laboratory Environment map image Like the previous test at the home e...

Page | 25 The result of the Wi-Fi strength in the laboratory environment is shown in figure (9). Figure 9: The Strength of HIG Channel in the Laboratory Environment White blue circle ( ) shown in the figure above indicates to the locations of all access points which discovered in all floors in this ...

Page | 26 And marked with yellow circle, we can directly know that the discovered access point is not located in the 3 rd floor because the strength of the signal is very weak near this access point. This figure is an illustration part which was taken from the original figure (figure 9): Figure 10: ...

Page | 27 After the site survey test in the 3 rd floor (laboratory environment) we got the information bellow: Survey Statistics Total Area 15344 sq ft The total area is a value calculated from the survey data. This value represents the number of square feet inside the outer boundary of the collecte...

Page | 28 2.2.3 Office Environment Our last site survey test in this project will be in an office environment, 4 th floor of house 11 in the University of Gävle. This floor consists of teachers, professors and other staff rooms. We started to study the map image of this floor first, because we did n...

Page | 29 The number of access points was increasing whenever the site survey test is progressing, white blue circle ( ) is shown in the figure (11) indicates to the locations of the access points which discovered in all floors in this building. The results of the Wi-Fi strength at the Office enviro...

Page | 30 Changing the location of the access point is very important if we want to improve the network. For the 4 th floor the information about site survey test are:- Survey Statistics Total Area 10511 sq ft The total area is a value calculated from the survey data. This value represents the numbe...

Page | 31 3. Summary and Conclusions 3.1 Access point locations In this thesis we used site surveying as a method for measuring the actual real network performance, by using Visiwave site survey program which shows after collecting data the visualized wireless coverage, which is very important if we...

Page | 32 3.3 Future Work The main reason of this thesis was to introduce the wireless network principles and site survey method in order to improve the wireless network service especially in the building 11, the electronic engineer department in Gävle University, this can be done with a lot of proc...

Page | 33 4 References [1] http://www.visiwave.com Last Access 2011-01-13 [2] http://www.metageek.net Last Access 2011-01-13 [3] IEEE Standards Association. “http://www.standards.ieee.org” Last Access 2011-01-13 [4] Briere, Danny Hurley, Pat Ferris, Edward. “ Wireless Home Networking For Dummies ” 2...

Appendix 1 This Appendix contain some information about VisiWave Site Survey program, and how the program works in a briefly, depending on VisiWave Site Survey program user guide [7].  Introduction to VisiWave Site Survey Program The first thing that we have to do is to check the wireless network a...

Page | II Figure 13: Survey Properties The new survey file is loaded and displayed in the main application window, is shown in figure (14). At the bottom of the screen is a status bar which display massages indicating what just done or what needs to be done and various indicators. At the top of the ...

Page | III Figure 14: The Main Application Window  Collecting Wi-Fi Data versus Spectrum Data In VisiWave Site Survey program there are two options for collecting data, these two options are Collect Wi-Fi and Collect Spectrum. If we want to collect Wi-Fi data we have to make sure that we are collec...

Page | IV  Collecting Survey Data After these steps that we discussed before, and directly after loading our map image of the Set Survey Map Scale window appears, shown in figure 15, this window asking for the dimension of the site that we want to collect Wi-Fi strength on it, by choosing the first...

Page | V Before jumping into collecting data, give some thought to where we plan to survey and how we plan on covering that area. Also keep a look out for possible obstacles or difficult areas to reach on foot. We may need to momentarily stop data collection to deal with these problem areas. This wo...

Page | VI  Continuous capture mode To use this mode we should first press on the point to point Capture Mod e Button ( ) in the toolbar, Then press the Start Collecting button ( ). We can click then the location on the survey map image that represent the location of where we standing in the real wo...

Page | VII  Deleting Data Any survey data added to survey file can be removed, if we begin to collect survey data and something does not go right, we can click on the screen in the wrong place or we were interrupted while adding several data points along a path, we can use the Clear->Last Data S...

Appendix 2 Discovered access points table only for HIG channel in the laboratory environment “ The discovered access points are listed first. Several values are list for each discovered access point. The first column lists the unique identifier assigned to that access point. The next column lists th...

Appendix 3 Discovered access points table only for HIG channel in the office environment “ The discovered access points are listed first. Several values are list for each discovered access point. The first column lists the unique identifier assigned to that access point. The next column lists the Me...