July 14th, 2008
Windows Vista and Netstumbler
Netstumbler isn’t officially supported on Windows Vista but several alternatives exist that provide similar or better information about wireless networks.
The quickest and simplest way to discover access points is by using the “netsh” command available by default in Windows Vista. The command returns text results for discovered wireless networks. Free tools that [...]
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July 5th, 2008
Outdoor Wireless Planning Tool
This online tool can be used to plan and visualize outdoor wireless networks by plotting device locations and radio frequency (RF) propagation coverage on mapping tools. Radio frequency propagation visualization can be viewed as contours on Google Maps or 3D RF models in Google Earth.
The tool is currently beta software and is [...]
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January 3rd, 2008
RFMON
RFMON is short for radio frequency monitoring mode and is sometimes also described as monitor mode or raw monitoring mode. In this mode an 802.11 wireless card is in listening mode (”sniffer” mode).
The wireless card does not have to associate to an access point or ad-hoc network but can passively listen to all traffic on [...]
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December 11th, 2007
NetStumbler
NetStumbler (also known as Network Stumbler) is a free/”beggarware” tool for Windows that can detect WiFi/Wireless LANs using the 802.11b, 802.11a and 802.11g WLAN standards.
NetStumbler is commonly used for:
Recreational WarDriving
Verifying network configurations
Finding locations with poor coverage in one’s WLAN
Detecting causes of wireless interference
Detecting unauthorized (”rogue”) access points
Aiming directional antennas for long-haul [...]
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December 6th, 2007
NetStumbler
NetStumbler (also known as Network Stumbler) is a free/”beggarware” tool for Windows that can detect WiFi/Wireless LANs using the 802.11b, 802.11a and 802.11g WLAN standards.
The current version is 0.4.0 and was released on April 21, 2004 and doesn’t officially work on Windows Vista (or 64-bit Windows XP).
Luckily, the “netsh” command can be used to discover [...]
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November 21st, 2007
WiFi Speed Test
Share Your WiFi Speed Test Results
Share your wireless speed test results, especially if you are using a muni WiFi network. Post a comment with the SSID, city/state of muniwireless network and your speeds.
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November 19th, 2007
Winips IP Address Changer
I’m constantly changing the IP address and related settings of my Windows XP machine and found a utility named Winips that makes the task very easy.
Winips is a handy utility that lets you quickly and easily change the IP address of any TCP/IP interface on your computer. It is a single < 100k EXE that [...]
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