Home Heatmap

DRAFT - the improvements need to be made

There is a lot of discussion in various home automation forums about how homes have dead spots, or Wi-Fi doesn't reach everywhere. So, people add Wi-Fi extenders or mesh networks. Or they use zigbee or z-wave. I don't have any Wi-Fi issues. So, I thought I'd do a home heat map using my MacBook.

For the RSSI measurements, I used a MacBook's Wireless Diagnostics tool, and for speedtest I used ATT Speedtest.

Improvements:

I did discover that my upstairs 802.11ac AP is being bandwidth limited by something in the network. Regardless of how far away, the maximum throughput was 100Mbps. My Netgear 1000 R6080 AP only has 100Mbps ports. I replaced it with a Linksys 1600AC and from location J, now I get 381.8/377.9Mbps down and up. I was getting 89.6/95.7Mbps. I need to redo the 5ac2 and n2 measurements.

I need separate the measurements into graphs by barriers. The graphs below are everything lumped together. I choose the locations based on the number of floors, interior and exterior walls, each should attenuate the signal.

Plat and Floor Plan with measurement points (1-5, A-L, V-Z)

White is Ground floor

Shaded is Upstairs

The stars indicate location of upstairs and downstairs APs