Best Practice Checklist - Ruckus Wireless ZoneDirector 1100 User Manual

Best Practice Checklist

Following the mesh best practices will ensure that your mesh is well-designed, and have the
capacity and reliability required for your enterprise applications. The best practices are summa-
rized below as a checklist for quick review.
1. Do not mix 802.11n with 802.11g APs in your mesh. They will NOT mesh. Additionally, dual
band 11n APs will not mesh with single band 11n APs. To ensure your APs will mesh with
each other, ensure they are all of the same radio type: either all 802.11g, all 802.11n single
band, or all 802.11n dual band APs.
2. Avoid an excessive number of hops. Ideally keep hop count to 3 or less.
3. Having more RAPs is better for performance.
4. Ensure that there are RAPs near the middle of a coverage area so as to minimize the number
of hops to reach a given MAP.
5. Where possible, ensure that the RAPs are distributed evenly throughout the coverage area
rather than clumped together.
6. Once the APs are mounted on a test-basis or permanently, use the Signal quality measure-
ment to ensure that the uplink signal quality from MAP to RAP is 25% or better.
7. Ideally there should be at least one alternate uplink path for each MAP for reliability, and
the signal quality of that alternate path should also be 25% or better.
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