Wi-Fi Site Survey - ASCOM Myco 3 Troubleshooting Manual

Troubleshooting Tools
5.1.1

Wi-Fi Site Survey

Ascom Myco 3 has an integrated site survey feature that can be used as a tool to debug Wi-Fi related
problems as well as to track information about the received signal strength, current and previously
associated APs. Such tool can be used during normal handset operation, as the signal monitor is displayed
in Picture-in-Picture (PIP) mode.
Caution
Actual signal strength values come to the site survey tool from Android with a significant
delay (up to three seconds).
Caution must be taken when moving around the site rapidly.
The RSSI information that is shown directly on the handset display, is described in
monitor explained, page
Figure 2. Wi-Fi signal monitor explained
As a part of a troubleshooting procedure, it can be very useful to use third-party WiFi analyzing apps ( see
Figure 3. Site Survey third-party apps, page
signal strengths surrounding an AP. The handset can be used to create a heatmap by sampling RF signal
strengths in the vicinity of an AP and then superimposing these values on to a building plan where the
exact location of the AP is shown.
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Figure 2. Wi-Fi signal
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Ascom Myco 3