The Wi-Fi Stand Stands Up
The recently completed Wireless LAN Professionals Conference (WLPC) was nice enough to gift attendees a Wi-Fi Stand . The product is a clever one, but as a person who believes in measuring Wi-Fi propagation accurately when surveying, I was concerned. When I tested it, my results showed that my concerns appear to be unfounded. The Wi-Fi stand is an apparatus that screws in to the top of a tripod to make a vertical, rectangular structure that allows enterprise APs to be hung upside down from standard ceiling mounts. If that is a little bit hard to visualize, here's my best shot at describing it: The graphic on the left is what the Wi-Fi Stand looks like and the graphic on the right is how the Wi-Fi Stand looks on top of a tripod. I am a big believer in designing & surveying Wi-Fi using real, production devices, and a longstanding problem with that has been temporarily mounting APs for the design/survey. I've tried zip ties, and velcro. I've gone...