Site Surveying for Repeater Usage

Site Surveying for Repeater Usage

Repeaters are supported by many of the WLAN products available today. However, the use of repeaters is recommended in only two scenarios:

• Locations where there is no possible way to wire the device

• If the installation will be temporary

The reason for this limited recommended use of repeaters is that a 50-percent reduction of bandwidth is typically introduced. The overlap on a repeater and its wired AP partner has to be, at a minimum, 50 percent. This is required so that the two APs have full communication with each other (see Figure 11-19).