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WiFi Signal Strength
On Tue, 14 May 2019 19:08:52 +0100, "NY" wrote:
"Char Jackson" wrote in message .. . Another consideration is how active the other signal-producing sources are. If I'm asking myself which 2.4GHz channel I should choose, and I see that channel 1 has 10 SSIDs on it and channel 6 has only 1 SSID on it, should I automatically pick channel 6? No, because if the single SSID on channel 6 is extremely active while the 10 SSIDs on channel 1 are mostly dormant, then channel 1 is the better choice. In short, it's pretty hard to tell, which is why in some/many/most cases it's becoming easier to just let the router (access point) use its own algorithm to pick a channel. Is there a way to tell how much traffic a "foreign" wifi network is carrying, when you are not actually connected to it to run a Wireshark scan? The short answer is yes, but I can't say that I remember exactly how. I only know it was one of the tools from the Backtrack CD. Backtrack was a live Linux CD used for penetration testing, so it had all of the cool tools. Backtrack morphed into Kali Linux in 2013, most recently updated in March 2019. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BackTrack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_Linux The tool that I used might have been Kismet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kismet_(software) -- Char Jackson |
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WiFi Signal Strength
"s|b" wrote in message
... On Tue, 14 May 2019 10:03:01 +0200, Fokke Nauta wrote: inSSIDer is the best option, for Windows en Android. Nowhere to be found on Play Store. It should be this link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.metageek.inSSIDer But it's dead. And I'm guessing it came/comes with ads. Yes I didn't find InSSIDer on Play Store when I looked recently. I certainly downloaded and installed it from there at some time in the past, so it looks as if the makers have removed it - maybe because they want to sell the later version rather than give away the older version. I wonder if anyone has saved the older installation file and put it on the internet somewhere. But WifiAnalyser (by Keuwlsoft) is still available. That also gives details of relative signal strengths of signals in range, and it plots a graph of the strength versus time so you can see how the strength varies as you walk around. |
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WiFi Signal Strength
On Wed, 15 May 2019 09:18:59 +0100, NY wrote:
But WifiAnalyser (by Keuwlsoft) is still available. That also gives details of relative signal strengths of signals in range, and it plots a graph of the strength versus time so you can see how the strength varies as you walk around. Very similar to WiFiAnalyzer (open-source). One major difference though, with WifiAnalyser you get free (unwanted) ads! -- s|b |
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WiFi Signal Strength
On 14/05/2019 20:11, s|b wrote:
On Tue, 14 May 2019 10:03:01 +0200, Fokke Nauta wrote: inSSIDer is the best option, for Windows en Android. Nowhere to be found on Play Store. It should be this link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.metageek.inSSIDer But it's dead. And I'm guessing it came/comes with ads. I downloaded it years ago. Works fine. And no ads. But good to know it's no longer there. Fokke |
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WiFi Signal Strength
On Mon, 13 May 2019 09:39:19 -0700, FiWi wrote:
What are different ways of seeing your home WiFi signal strength ? I want to walk around and find hot and cold spots. Some tool ? Some app on a laptop ? Some app on a cell phone ? Is there a way that will update quickly so as to be able to walk it around easily ? Thank you in advance for your help. Fill a coffee mug with cold water. put an 18.33 inch piece of stiff copper wire in the water, making sure it sticks up straight. Walk slowly. When the water begins to boil, you found a hot spot. I was told that adding a shot of Everclear alcohol to the water makes it react quicker. Plus you can make a potent instant coffee when you found the hot spot. Mister Ed |
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WiFi Signal Strength
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On Mon, 13 May 2019 09:39:19 -0700, FiWi wrote: What are different ways of seeing your home WiFi signal strength ? I want to walk around and find hot and cold spots. Some tool ? Some app on a laptop ? Some app on a cell phone ? Is there a way that will update quickly so as to be able to walk it around easily ? Thank you in advance for your help. [] There's an excellent app. for Android fobiles (even runs on Android 4.3, probably earlier). I don't know if it's available for iOS 'phones. IIRR, it's called something like wifi analyser. (I can't imagine carrying a laptop around - it would be unwieldy, and also I suspect too slow to keep up.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Old soldiers never die - only young ones |
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