Installing wireless range extender within a customer premises of a service provider network

Abstract

Systems, methods, and apparatuses disclosed herein can be utilized to install wireless networking equipment, such as a wireless access point and/or a wireless range extender, with a customer premises. These systems, methods, and apparatuses estimate a communication range, or a reach, of the wireless access point within the customer premises. These systems, methods, and apparatuses can thereafter identify one or more locations within the customer premises that are situated at or near a maximum communication range, or a maximum reach, of the wireless access point provides reliable packet delivery from in which to place the wireless range extender. The maximum communication range, or the maximum reach, of the wireless access point can be associated with a minimum signal metric for applications, such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), Voice over Wi-Fi (VoWiFi), and/or streaming video to provide some examples, that provides very reliable, timely packet delivery, and/or a minimum signal metric that provides reliable packet delivery for applications, such as electronic mail (email) and/or web surfing to provide some examples. These systems, methods, and apparatuses can identify the one or more locations within the customer premises that are associated with signal metrics between the minimum signal metric that provides the very reliable, timely packet delivery, and the minimum signal metric that provides the reliable packet delivery in which to place the wireless range extender.