Techniques for a Successful Wireless Site Survey Wireless local
area networks are the most widely adopted networking technology
to hit the market in the last three years. They have the
potential to make network applications and the Internet
available anywhere on a campus so that students and faculty are
no longer tethered to their offices or shared computer
laboratories in order to connect to a computer network. In early
2001, Saint Francis University in Loretto, Penn., undertook a
study to create a wireless network in all of its academic
buildings. The Center of Excellence for Remote and Medically
Under Served Areas (online at www.cermusa.org), a telemedicine
and distance learning research facility located on the
university's campus, collaborated with Saint Francis on the
effort. The university's goal was to create a wireless network
to support an upcoming laptop initiative in which all incoming
freshmen would receive notebook computers. CERMUSA's objective
was to gain a better understanding of wireless tech