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INSSIDER 4 HOME INSTALL
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INSSIDER 4 HOME INSTALL

It also helps you find the best place to install your router when the signal strength is uneven. These are basically softwares that help you point the issues with the network by highlighting the areas of network distress and select the best channels for you to switch on to. What is a WiFi Analyzer and why you need them? You can avoid being a slave to your network if you consider having the following solution. And your aim is to always avoid the weak spots and set up things according to the availability of the wifi.

How often do think of a solution beyond restarting the router?Ī few places may give very good wifi but others are fully dead when it comes to network. Especially with fluctuating networks combined with the effect of external factors like the weather can get on the nerves. The NetStumbler v0.4.WiFi signals can give you a hard time every now and then. To view a screen shot of NetStumbler in use you can use Google Images.Īlthough NetStumbler’s creator stated in February 2010 that he was working on a new version of NetStumbler that would be compatible with the latest Windows operating systems, this new release had not materialized by the time of this writing. In the meantime, NetStumbler has been surpassed by a similar wireless tool, InSSIDer by MetaGeek.

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Like NetStumbler, InSSIDER is free but unlike NetStumbler, it is open source software ( Apache 2.0 license) and currently an alpha version of InSSIDER is available for installation on Linux (Linux page offline, cached here).

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InSSIDer is available in four editions: inSSIDer Home v3.1.2.1 (free), inSSIDer v4 (commercial), inSSIDer Office (commercial), and inSSIDER for Android (free app). InSSIDer works just the same as NetStumbler: you simply launch the executable and the program immediately begins scanning for and displaying information on the WLANs it finds.ĭetails about the WLANs detected are displayed in several columns as explained below. SSID – the service set identifier or name of the WLAN.Channel – the channel that the WLAN is operating on.RSSI – the received signal strength indicator, or measurement of the power (signal strength) present in a received radio signal.The lower, the stronger (for example, my WLAN whose AP is ten feet away is rated -36 while more distant WLANs are -67 to -88).

Security – the type of encryption the WLAN uses to secure its transmissions.

‘None’ means no encryption is used leaving that WLAN wide open. Other possibilities are WEP, WPA-TKIP (aka WPA Personal), and RSNA -CCMP which is the same as WPA2- CCMP.

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MAC Address – the MAC address of the wireless access point (AP).

Max Rate – the theoretical maximum data transmission rate for the WLAN.

Vendor – the manufacturer of the wireless AP, such as Linksys, Netgear, D-Link, etc.Ĩ02.11g can theoretically reach 54 megabits per second (Mbs) 802.11n can surpass even this speed.

Network Type – only two choices here: infrastructure or ad hoc.

In infrastructure mode, wireless-capable devices communicate through an access point that serves as a bridge to a wired network infrastructure.

First Seen – displays the time when inSSIDer first detected the WLAN.Īd hoc mode enables direct peer-to-peer transmissions between wireless-capable devices without the intervention of an AP.

Last Seen – displays the time when inSSIDer last saw the WLAN (presumably before it went offline).

Latitude and Longitude – used in conjunction with inSSIDer’s GPS functionality (described below).

The functionality of inSSIDer is expanded by the functions of four tabs that appear in the user interface.

Welcome – contains links from the MetaGeek website.

Time Graph – displays the up’s and down’s of the WLANs’ signal strengths (color-coded for easy viewing).

2.4 GHz Channels – another graph displaying the signal strength (amplitude) of only the 2.4 GHz WLANs that inSSIDer finds.

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5 GHz Channels – another graph displaying the signal strength (amplitude) of only the 5 GHz WLANs that inSSIDer finds.Īpparently you can connect a GPS device to your computer’s serial port and use it in conjunction with inSSIDer I cannot explore this functionality at present, but MetaGeek maintains a list of supported GPS models on its inSSIDer support forum.

By default inSSIDer does not perform logging but you can enable this function by choosing GPS -> Start Logging. You can tell InSSIDer what to call its log file and where to save it by selecting GPS -> Change log file name. Kml format, select GPS -> Convert GPX to KML (also see here for more on KML).