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Assess Yourself

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Yo, man.  There's a lot of Wi-Fi installers out there flakin' and perpetratin', but scared to kick reality... So what you want Wi-Fi engineers and admins to do? Assess Yourself!     To which you might respond, "Duh!" Any networking or Wi-Fi person worth a lick knows that a network should be assessed before (and, in many cases, after) deployment.  What is far, far, far less well known is HOW to assess a Wi-Fi installation.   Properly assessing a Wi-Fi installation involves two parts: assessing configuration settings and assessing the physical location of access points (APs) and antennas.  And if you don't assess both, you'll be  making a sucker and you equal .  While rolling through the streets of Searcy, AR in my main man  GT Hill 's 1984 Ferrari convertible, I was given some wise insight.  Not, "I only buy things that make money back," a former favorite quote of GT's prior to the purchase of said Ferrari.  Instead, it was