Our Services

Mad River Enterprises delivers high-performance, affordable wireless networks with exceptional customer service and support. Our services include Wi-Fi and RF surveys, innovative network design, and customized network solutions to keep you connected at lightning speed.

WiFi/RF Surveys

A fundamental step in deploying and maintaining a wireless network

Network Design

We have over 20 years of expertise in layer 2/3 design, implementation and support.

Strategic Solutions

We listen to learn from you. Reflect on what we have learned Apply wisdom and experience

Vertical We Serve

With decades of experience, Mad River Enterprises offers specialized consulting and solutions for a variety of sectors to optimize operations and drive growth.

Education

We create advanced network architectures for educational institutions, focusing on high-speed connectivity and security, while ensuring resilient and adaptable networks through RF surveys and seamless implementation.

Small Business

We design bespoke network solutions for small businesses, offering cost-effective, adaptable infrastructures and personalized service to address budgetary constraints and scalability.

Federal Government

We engineer mobile network solutions for the defense industry that ensures secure, seamless communication for all military branches, including the Air Force, with resilient and scalable infrastructure.

Hospitality

We provide high-performance, cost-efficient network solutions that deliver fast, reliable internet for the lodging and MDU industry, enhancing the guest experience while addressing budget constraints and operational needs.

Site Surveys

A Wireless Site Survey, sometimes called an RF (radio frequency) site study, is the process of planning and designing a wireless network to provide a wireless solution that will deliver the required RF coverage and throughput for the identified space.

Our engineers are trained and certified, using the best of class tools and software to survey and design the most effective and efficient wireless deployment. There are two predominate methods of surveys that can take place; predictive and active design with pros and cons to each.

Predictive Surveys

A Predictive Survey is done using only floor plans. Based upon the floor plans alone, the engineer predicts where the best location for access points would be and produces a design. Some engineers take an educated guess at it while others use tools like Air Magnet or Ekahau to produce coverage maps to back their suppositions. These tools can be effective if the floor plans are scaled properly and construction materials are not only accurate, but the engineer takes the time to incorporate them into their predictive design.

Predictive surveys are incomplete and rely on guesswork about how the RF will function in the environment. Predictive surveys require less overhead and therefore should be much less expensive. If the engineer charges you anything, the cost should be nominal as there is no investment in equipment, travel or on-site labor.

Active Design

An Active Design, be it a re-design or new deployment, our engineers will develop a wireless network guaranteed to function to your specifications. Our engineers will be onsite to temporarily place access points in identified locations, measure the effectiveness and make changes until the design is fully tested and flushed out.

Although the most expensive option, when working with an accredited RF Engineer conducting a proper active survey design, customers will provide a wireless network that will be the most efficient and effective for today’s devices and your applications. This is the most effective way to design an RF network resulting in a known functional environment from  day one.

Passive Surveys

A Passive Survey is measuring existing wifi within a building. Our engineer will go onsite to make note of layout, construction and finishes of the facility. They will bring with them the hardware and software to properly measure existing frequencies seen from the areas of concern, making note of how the RF functions within the space.

From this, the engineer has better information to build a predictive design. Active surveys cost money. There is overhead in software, hardware and labor necessary to develop a proper report. The result will be a very good estimate of design and budget but not perfect. For that, you need active design.

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