For this scenario I would say it is a really bad idea. The speed that the FLT's can actually move around a building is surprisingly fast, old warehouse systems are notoriously susceptible to poor roaming.   I would say that using hand held devices is the wrong thing to be doing. If they had vehicle mounted computers, most from the big vendors such as Zebra come with external antenna mounting options. You can actually fit an antenna on the roof of the FLT and cable it into the computer. 99% of the warehouses we do we supply like this, going down the mesh route is over complicating it in my opinion.   More recently we deployed wireless in a large freezer, the FLT have fully enclosed insulated triple glazed cabs on them, we had the antenna mounted externally and they work flawlessly.   It sounds more like someone tried to save money by just telling the FLT users to use a hand held scanner (which they probably already had)   ... View more