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Find out how many access points you need, and where they go

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Tell Strucit the coverage you need, and it suggests where to mount access points: the fewest APs it can find that reach your target, on real walls, using the same coverage model as the Wi-Fi heatmap.

How it works

  1. Draw or detect the floor plan and set the wall materials. Placement is only as good as the walls it plans around.
  2. Open the Wi-Fi panel and pick a band and a target, for example 5 GHz and 90% of the rooms.
  3. Click Suggest Router Placement. Strucit tests mounting points along every wall and places the smallest set of access points it can find that reaches the target.
  4. Check the result on the heatmap. The access points are ordinary APs: move one, change its power, delete one, and the map and the coverage percentage update.

How it chooses the spots

  • Wall-mounted, like a real install. Candidate spots sit on the walls, centered between junctions, a hand’s width into the room. Never in a corner, a doorway or a window span.
  • Both sides of a partition. An AP on a wall between two rooms covers its own room and reaches into the next one through a single wall. That’s usually how a plan gets away with fewer APs.
  • Fewest APs, not just enough. Strucit adds the AP that covers the most uncovered area, repeats until the target is met, then removes any AP the rest make redundant and tries swapping positions to save one more.
  • Honest about the result. If the walls you have can’t reach the target, you see the best coverage it found, not a promise.
  • Your APs count. Access points you already placed on the same band are part of the starting coverage.

Free and Pro

AP placement is part of the Pro Wi-Fi tools, with the heatmap and the PDF coverage sheets. Drawing, placing APs by hand and PNG export are free.

What it doesn’t do

  • It plans one band at a time. Run it again for another band if you need to.
  • It doesn’t pick AP models or plan channels.
  • It uses predicted coverage, not measurements, so treat the result as a design to verify on site.
  • It only mounts on walls. Ceiling mounts in the middle of a large open space aren’t suggested; place those by hand.

Frequently asked questions

How does Strucit decide how many access points I need?

You pick a band and a coverage target, for example 90% of the rooms at 5 GHz. Strucit tries mounting points along the walls, keeps adding the access point that covers the most uncovered area, then removes any AP the others make redundant and tries swapping positions to save one more. What you get is the smallest set it found that reaches the target.

Does it replace the access points I already placed?

No. Access points already on the plan on the same band count toward the coverage, and Strucit only adds what is missing to reach the target.

What if the target can't be reached?

Strucit tells you. It places the best set it found and shows the coverage it actually achieved, instead of pretending the target was met.

Where will it put the access points?

On walls, centered between wall junctions, a short distance off the wall and inside a room. Never in a corner, a doorway or a window. A partition wall between two rooms is a good spot, because one AP can serve both.

Can I undo a suggestion?

Yes. The suggested access points are added in one step, so one Undo removes them all.

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