1. Be familiar with your environment. Be familiar with the types of clients, the RF environment, the physical deployment, and the goals of the WLAN.
2. Avoid interference
   1. Prefer the 5GHz radio
   2. Configure daily channel selection
   3. Change the channel width to 20MHz
      1. Although wider channels (40/80/160MHz) increase potential data rates, in real-world conditions they typically just expose Wi-Fi communications to greater noise/interference. Limiting the channel-width to 20MHz typically improves Wi-Fi performance and usability.
   4. Disable legacy frame rates
      1. Raise the minimum basic data rate to something appropriate for your environment
3. Prefer client traffic over AP management traffic
   1. Configure as few SSIDs as possible - each additional SSID increases management traffic, which reduces airtime availability for client data
   2. Increase the beacon interval to 1000ms if clients infrequently change or if roaming is not a consideration.
      1. Default - 100ms
      2. Range 20ms to 1000ms
4. Plan for the future
   1. Design for density not broad coverage areas
   2. Aim for -60 to -65dBm in multi-AP environments
   3. Aim for 25% overlap between APs
   4. Anticipate increase in the number of clients
   5. Set transmit power to less than 100% during initial deployment
      1. This will allow administrators to increase transmit power as appropriate in the final deployment phase