AP Hallway Mounting– Hallway - Is it a good practice to mount an AP inside an office (near the door) serving about 6-8 offices? Or AP should be mounted at center of hallway outside office? Way it is now, there is signal degradation when office clos

[Paula]

AP Hallway Mounting– Hallway - Is it a good practice to mount an AP inside an office (near the door) serving about 6-8 offices? Or AP should be mounted at center of hallway outside office? Way it is now, there is signal degradation when office clos

[sderikonja1]

Hallway mounting is possible but comes at a cost which could be low or high depending on spectrum use in the area, wall material, number of clients and application type. If you are just aiming at overall coverage with a small client base and fairly noisy environment, then 802.11 is resilient enough to accommodate that design. If the client base goes up there will be issues and you may have to divvy up large cells into smaller and more targeted ones.

[samantha_lynn]

The more obstacles the signal has to move through, the more signal degradation you will have. For instance, when the office is open vs when it is closed. If you have metal, glass, or water in the environment, that will damage the signal even further. Placing the AP in the hallway might help the other offices that need to connect to that AP, as it would be eliminating one of the walls the signal has to move through.