You can also buy an external antenna for an existing wifi adapter aaaaaand you could get an Broadcom based router, throw tomato on it and since tomato is based on busybox you can install linux based monitoring applications and see almost everything that's going on if you set up SSH and go in via putty or some other terminal.
-R From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Micheal Espinola Jr Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2015 11:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] wifi analyzing Accurate distance detection is tough. It sounds like you might be interested in a wifi "heat mapper", if that helps your searching. -- Espi On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 6:30 PM, J- P <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Something that can maybe detect actual distance from an AP ,i went to site recently and the AP's were about 5 feet above the drop ceilings mounted on the beams, I had to go into 4 different offices before I actually located it. and perhaps if possible something that can detect interference, or suggest better AP placement? ________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 18:02:36 -0700 Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] wifi analyzing To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> define better. what additional information are you looking for? -- Espi On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 5:38 PM, J- P <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi all, Can anyone recommend a wifi analyzer (software or hardware) that's not going cost me a mortgage payment or two? I have this great little app on my phone which does detect AP's, displays signal strength (with sound as you get closer/further), shows channel usage & overlap , but I need something a little better, however, I'm not ready to fork out 4k just yet. tia
