Evaluating Interference in Wireless LANs:
Recommended Practice

Radio interference remains a core concern among wireless LAN (WLAN) users, network administrators, and operations staff alike. After all, the potential for interference is a fact of life in the unlicensed bands where WLANs operate, and, even worse, it is often very difficult to evaluate the effects of interference on a particular wireless-LAN (WLAN) installation at any given moment in time. In this paper, Farpoint Group presents a core set of recommendations for evaluating and dealing with the interference challenge.