I am creating a heat map in Airwave and just want to know about proposed placement of new AP's. what is considered an OK dB? is there a chart to associate dB with signal strength?
An ideal signal to target is -65 throughout the area (make sure this is on 5GHz....I usually remove 2.4GHz from the heatmap so not to misinterpret). This will provide clients with a high quality link (barring other interferers) throughout. You can levarage this VRD to help you along (it is for 802.11n, but still applicable).
http://www.arubanetworks.com/wp-content/uploads/Indoor80211n_2012-05-31.pdf
so lower the -dB the better (signal)?
Well, technically no...
Since the values are negative, you want the number to be higher as far as value goes.
Think of it this way; the closer to 0dBm the better the signal
Take a look through this user guide, it's pretty usefull when starting out with VisualRF.
http://community.arubanetworks.com/aruba/attachments/aruba/unified-wired-wireless-access/2429/1/AWMS_VisualRF_UserGuide_7.pdf
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