This isn’t a significant weight, but when you’re walking, potentially miles per day, then any additional weight is potentially unwelcome – it all adds up! My own opinion on this is that over time this will become less of a consideration.
Having only the SK for surveying represents a potential single point of failure that wasn’t quite so much of a concern previously. However, new users without backup hardware will need to be confident that they can get a replacement unit promptly if required. For those who are existing ESS users, they will no doubt be able to fall back to their existing dongles in the interim. If the unit should fail, then getting a replacement to avoid lost productivity time will be paramount.
#Ekahau site survey software
The organizations who provide surveying services are often expected to invest heavily in their survey equipment and software and still work at very low margins for the services they provide. They generally want it done quickly and as cheaply as possible. Organizations generally seem reticent to invest in the time that’s required to perform a comprehensive survey. Cost: Wireless surveying (certainly in the UK anyhow) is an activity that seems to be constantly subject to significant pressure in terms of the pricing of services.For me this is one of the major game-changers that the SK provides, though many folks involved in surveying are not even aware of this issue
I wrote at some length about this is an article earlier this year, which I suggest you check out ( ). This will allow for survey data to be comparable between surveys performed by different teams or individuals (as long as they were using a Sidekick unit). The SK adapters are manufactured to much tighter tolerances, meaning that results are subject to far less variation compared to their off-the-shelf low-tolerant counterparts. This can lead to inconsistent results depending on which adapters you or your team may use. This is due to the wide tolerances that are accepted as part of their manufacturing process. When using external adapters, even adapters of the same brand and model may vary by several dB in terms of the measurements that they report. The SK has 2 matched Wi-Fi adapters that are very similar to each other in terms of tolerance and performance. Whatever your survey multi-dongle solution, it’s likely to end up looking something like this: Hmmmm…but how do you carry a USB hub festooned with adapters AND your laptop during the survey…? Well, we’re all highly skilled engineers - we can fashion something with a Velcro fixing, or maybe some carefully crafted wire twists, or even buy a cleverly designed hub holder. But hold on…does your laptop even have that many USB ports.? No? Ah…so you’ll need a USB hub to ensure you have enough USB ports. In most cases, all of the dongles are invariably connected to USB ports of your survey laptop or tablet. To correctly survey, you’ll need at least two dongles gathering Wi-Fi RF data (one per band), together with one or two spectrum analysis dongles scanning both bands of the Wi-Fi spectrum. If you’re a current user of Ekahau Site Survey (or any wireless survey product come to think of it), you’ll be familiar with the ritual of assembling your survey dongle collection each time you need to perform a wireless survey. But after having been given early access to a new product from Ekahau, I’m going to say it: yes…this is a “game changer”. Being a techie (and a rather reserved Brit), I’m not one for throwing around such emotional, bombastic language lightly. It seems to accompany just about every new product or service that they may introduce. The phrase “game changer” is banded around a great deal by our good friends in sales and marketing.
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