View And Manage Heat Maps For Deployed Plans - NETGEAR ProSafe WC7520 Reference Manual

Note that the planning tool provides only default placement and shows the coverage area
for each access point.
Move the access points to optimize coverage in desired areas and avoid coverage in
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unwanted areas based on the floor plan.
Colored circles around the access point symbols indicate the expected approximate
coverage of the individual access point. The color of the circle represents the expected
quality of the signal strength: a darker color indicates signal overlap with nearby access
points.
Note: A red color indicates the strongest coverage area: better than –50 dBm
RSSI; an orange color better than -60 dBm; a yellow color better than –70 dBm;
and so on.
Moderate overlap is required for seamless roaming. No overlap will lead to
disconnections and dead spots.
You can click an access point icon and drag it to manually reposition it to see how the new
location would affect the coverage. Click Cancel to undo any access point repositioning
changes.
Use the Zoom slider to increase or decrease the size of the map.
7. Click Save to save the location map, or click Back to return to the Planning Buildings
screen without savings changes to the location map.
Note: For each floor, you can save one location map only. When you
modify and save the location map, the previously saved location
map is overwritten.

View and Manage Heat Maps for Deployed Plans

A heat map lets you view in real time, by wireless frequency band, the signal strength and
wireless coverage for a building floor. The heat map shows the actual signal strengths that
each access point is detecting from neighbor access points.
Note: For the heat maps to work correctly, the access point placement on
the floor plan needs to closely match the actual physical location of
the access points.
The heat map shows the following information:
• Signal strength and wireless coverage, including coverage holes
• Known access points that are managed by the wireless controller
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