Wi-Fi Access Point Cabling and Site Surveys
Wi-Fi complaints are usually cabling and placement complaints wearing a different hat. Access points need a certified PoE link, a mounting position planned around the actual building rather than the ceiling grid, and enough of them in the right places. We handle the cabling, the mounting and the coverage planning so the result matches what people expect from the network.
What's included
- Cabling and PoE links for wireless access points
- Access point mounting in offices, warehouses and industrial space
- Coverage surveys to plan how many access points a space needs and where
- Dense-environment planning for offices, clinics and multi-tenant buildings
- Warehouse and high-ceiling coverage, where standard placement does not work
- Structured cabling to support future access point additions
- Certification of every access point link
Coverage is a plan, not a best guess
Where access points go decides how the wireless performs far more than which model you buy. Walls, warehouse racking, cold storage, metal shelving and dense seating all change the answer, and a survey takes that into account before cable is pulled — which is the moment the decision is cheap to change.
Warehouses and industrial space are their own problem
High ceilings, racking full of stock and metal structures are hostile to wireless. Coverage in those buildings is planned around how the space is actually used, on the floor and at the heights where scanners and devices operate, rather than assumed from the building’s square footage.
The cable still has to be right
An access point is a Power over Ethernet device: it depends on the cable for power and for throughput. A marginal link that was acceptable for a workstation is not acceptable for an access point carrying dozens of clients, so every access point link is certified rather than assumed.
What each band can carry
Wi-Fi design starts with which band you are working in, because the three behave very differently in a building:
| Band | Channels in practice (Canada) | Channel width | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.4 GHz | Three non-overlapping: 1, 6 and 11 | 20 MHz | Reach through walls at low device density |
| 5 GHz | Many, with DFS restrictions on part of the band | 20, 40 or 80 MHz | General business use |
| 6 GHz | 1,200 MHz of spectrum opened for Wi-Fi 6E | Up to 160 MHz | High device density and clean spectrum |
Canada opened the 6 GHz band for Wi-Fi 6E, which added 1,200 MHz of clean spectrum. That matters most in exactly the places that used to be painful: open offices, warehouses with hundreds of scanners, and any building where the 5 GHz channels were already crowded by the neighbours.
A survey is how that becomes a plan. We work to a design target of about -67 dBm at the cell edge for voice, and -65 dBm for data, and then place access points to hold those figures through walls, racking and stock. Signal that looks fine on a floor plan often is not, once there is a shelving unit in the way.
Where we work
We install and certify this work across Montreal, Laval, Longueuil, the Québec City area and the surrounding regions — see our service areas.
Related services
Often installed alongside this work:
Wi-Fi Access Point Cabling and Site Surveys questions
Yes, and that is the point of doing it before cable is pulled — placement decisions are cheap to change on paper and expensive to change afterwards.
Yes. High ceilings, metal racking and cold storage all need coverage planned differently from an office, and we plan around how the space actually operates.
We install the cabling, the PoE links and the mounting, and coordinate with whoever manages the wireless controller or cloud platform.
Yes. Every access point link is tested and certified like any other part of the cabling plant.
Yes. Adding drops to an existing labelled plant is normal work, and we keep the labelling consistent with what is already there.
Three in practice: 1, 6 and 11. Everything in between overlaps, which is why a crowded 2.4 GHz band falls over so quickly.
Around -67 dBm at the cell edge for voice and -65 dBm for data. Those are measured where the client actually sits, not in the corridor.
Yes. Canada opened 1,200 MHz of 6 GHz spectrum for Wi-Fi 6E, which gives clean, high-capacity channels for dense spaces.
Get a free site survey
Tell us what needs to be cabled and we will come out, look at the space and put together a written quote. Call (438) 817-4587 or send the details through the quote form.