Please remember that simply putting an ap on a stick and performing a
passive or active survey with default rf power and datarates doesnt really
reflect real world senarios.
Performing an ACTIVE survey with exact predefined power output parmeters
and trimmed basic rates will give you a more realistic representation of
how your wireless coverage and speed will look like post deployment.
You also have to remember that post deployment... enabling ARM or Airmatch
can fill in any gaps but the rf coverage will not resemble your pre
deployment active survey.
Post deployment after letting Airmatch or Arm do its thing ( letting it sit
for 24hrs) you could temporarily disable these RF optomizing features and
then preform passive survey. This will allow to view your predefined AP
coverage plan after dynamic rf optimization.
Just remember to reenable ARM or Airmatch if you want to contiune to
dynamily update the rf environment incase of any new gaps arise because of
reasons like new walls, new fueniture or even AP failures.
Sent from phone... sorry for typos.