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January 22, 2013 at 7:33 am #1451
jedmun1ParticipantHello,
I’m new to Netspot and want to see if what I’m experiencing is normal when doing a survey. Basically I’ve go a very large building to survey. It’s a 100,000+sqft manufacturing facility with an attached office space. As I move around the building clicking on map, the circle formed around my survey point is small, only about 10-15 ft in diameter. Each click, results in about a 20 second scan, which seems ok perhaps a bit slow in comparison to other software (ekahau heat mapper is my primary point of reference). In testing this out, I completed a small area, trying to mostly cover the map, and found that wherever the scanning radius didn’t overlap the heat map was basically blank. Is this normal, or should it be interpolating from the surrounding scan points to fill in the gaps? If this is normal, then I’m worried that the combination of large amount of scan points along with the 20 second scan times will result in an exceedingly time consuming operation. I estimate that it would take at least 1000 scan points which would be 5hrs+ in just scanning time, not including walking time from point to point. Any insight would be appreciated
Thanks,
January 25, 2013 at 1:26 am #1802
Alex – NetSpotKeymasterHi Jeff, here’s one of the articles that might provide you with the hints you are looking for: /help/tips-and-hints-running-a-wireless-site-survey/
When starting a new survey, one of the settings is the Zone Area Type. This setting regulates how large the green radius circle is around each measurement point during a survey. Please select the correct setting for your area to minimize the number of samples you need to take, and increase the accuracy of your results.
In fact, we emailed you a day or two ago with the same recommendation, I guess you haven’t received our reply.
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