WiFi Coverage

Place access points and mesh, model multi-wall RF coverage/interference/throughput, plan channels and export per band.

The WiFi engine solves a real radio-propagation model from your access points and walls. See the feature overview; this is the how-to.

It’s a modelled estimate, not a measurement — typically ±6–10 dB. Real coverage also depends on furniture, occupancy, reflections and antenna orientation. Validate critical areas with an on-site survey. Every export carries this disclaimer.

Add the engine

Add the WiFi Coverage engine, set your region (it locks channels and EIRP limits), and pick an environment preset — open plan, typical office, dense office, residential or warehouse — which sets how quickly signal falls off.

Equipment catalogue

Place devices from the rail:

• Access points — indoor ceiling (omni), wall-plate (directional), outdoor (directional, 2.4/5 GHz), high-density (5/6 GHz), desktop router.
• Mesh — mesh router (the wired root) and mesh node (satellite).
• Extenders.
• Client reference points — non-radiating markers that report the modelled signal at a spot (“will my desk get coverage?”).

Each type ships sensible RF defaults you can override per device. An AP dropped within 25 cm of a wall auto-mounts to it.

Heat-map: three modes

Turn on the heat-map (eye chip), choose a band (2.4 / 5 / 6 GHz) and a mode:

The map paints weak → strong (violet → red). Walls attenuate by their material build-up, closed doors and windows attenuate, and open doors are gaps. Higher bands lose more through walls (5 and 6 GHz attenuate more than 2.4 GHz), and rays hitting a wall at an angle lose more (longer path through the material).

The solve runs when something changes — devices, the room, the band or the mode — not on every pan, so the editor stays responsive.

Tuning a device

Select an AP to set:

• Enabled bands, Tx power and antenna gain (EIRP is clamped to the regional limit).
• Antenna pattern — omnidirectional or directional, with beamwidth and azimuth.
• Channel per band — Auto (set by the planner) or explicit.
• Wall mount, label and mounting height.

A client reference point instead shows the modelled best-server RSSI and throughput at its location.

Channel planning & mesh

• Plan channels — auto-assigns non-overlapping channels (2.4 GHz uses the 1/6/11 reuse set; 5/6 GHz are chunked to the channel width) and reports co-channel conflicts.
• Mesh check — builds a tree from the root(s), preferring 5 GHz backhaul, and grades each link good (≥ −65 dBm), marginal, weak or orphan, warning on missing roots, orphans, weak links and deep hop chains.

Compliance & export

The region sets the regulatory framework that caps power and channels:

Export a multi-page PDF — one landscape page per active band — rendering the selected mode with a matching legend, a coverage summary (% above target, mean/min dBm, peak Mbps, mean SINR), the weakest rooms, the channel summary and the accuracy disclaimer.

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