Ah, ouch.  Good catch.
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On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was ready to cough up the $249 until I realized that dongle only does 2.4
> GHz.
> That might have worked 10 years ago.
> The dual band dongle is quite a bit more expensive.
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Caleb Knauer
> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 7:14 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] inSSIDer Office
>
> Was looking at this the other day.  Now if you go to
> http://www.metageek.com/products/office/ it says it's $249.  That
> should give you the basic channel scanning tools plus the tiny
> spectrum analyzer dongle and SA functionality.  Cleaner and faster
> than using airView, not sure if it's worth it for you.  Been using the
> regular inssider 4 for a while now and it works fine.  Chanalyzer and
> stuff came with our Ekahau suite in my last gig but didn't use it much
> but seemed fine.
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> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 1:47 AM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I was looking at inSSIDer Office from Metageek for installers to
>> troubleshoot customer WiFi issues, but I realized the price shot up to
>> something like $650 to cover both 2.4 and 5 GHz.  The product seems
>> slicker
>> than just using a Nanostation and airView, but the price difference is
>> like
>> 10X.
>>
>> Anybody using it and is it actually worth that kind of money?  I guess you
>> can spend another 10X that and more on a Fluke.
>>
>> For the time being I downloaded the free Xirrus app.  Way less
>> functionality
>> and not as slick, but free.  Well, free in exchange for getting on their
>> mailing list.
>>
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