Placement and Location of Access Points

We are just starting a new build on our school, included on this is the installation of wireless over the top of our existing network.
I have read that cisco and other vendors supply free software to automate the placements of wireless access points, but I can't find it anywhere?
Any ideas or advice?
Thanks
Steve Audus
Chaucer School
Sheffield UK

WLSE can help you to adjust the radio coverage. However, WLSE is not free.
We usually recommend you to hire a third party vendor to do a site survey. The vendor will take various antennas with them. They put different antennas in different positions; so that it gives you the best coverage. Finally, the vendor will give you a blue print and tell you the placement of APs/antennas.

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My name is Vidya Sagar. I am new to Wireless technology. We are planning to implement Wireless in our office. I have given the requirements below. Kindly go through the details and let me know how to start.
We have purchased Cisco 2504 Wireless Controller (One) and Ciscon 1042 Access Points (Five). At present I am going to use 3 access points only.
I have attached a simple diagram of our office network. We have more than 30 VLANs configured in Core Switch, we are planning to give wifi access to only 3 VLANs.
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Your Guest vlan, you will need to create an ACL to block traffic from accessing the internal network. You might want to allow dhcp and DNS bit I would leave it open first until you can verify everything is working.
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https://supportforums.cisco.com/docs/DOC-13954
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6366/products_tech_note09186a0080b1a506.shtml
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https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=8&ved=0CFQQtwIwBw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DWk_bRdmsQlA&ei=_BEyUeCYM8TdqAHHsICAAw&usg=AFQjCNF8PiVBQK1Kipb4j8AzD153bKtmgA&sig2=smHhNVmCr2of2NzbnDhGmw
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We have a network of eight (8) Cisco 350 Access Points.
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Hmmm....all these replies, with good information, and no one answered your question!
You can't cut and paste a list of MACs into a Cisco AP (how come, I don't know). What you need to do is enter one MAC address. Then download a non-default config file out of the AP. Then find the lines that changed, and you have your template for adding MAC address lists in one fell swoop. I made a little excel spreadsheet to let me paste in a list of MACs, then spit out the config file lines that you can add as an "additional configuration file" via the web gui.
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