It's a medium sized office space consisting of three separate suites with about 220 employees - most with fairly large cubes. Two of the suites are situated on different floors directly above/below each other, and the other suite is on the second floor above both our HR/training area and another company's offices.
I haven't taken the time to calculate actual square footage, but the fellow from consulting firm that did the wireless survey several years ago spent a couple of days shuffling around the office and clicking his AirMagnet tablet PC in a most boring fashion... Kurt On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 09:31, John Aldrich <jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com> wrote: > Kurt, what sort of area are you talking about? I'm guessing with 15 APs, it's > probably pretty large... but still, it might help if we had some idea what > the geography is like. :-) > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 12:23 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Wifi monitoring > > Interesting, but no port for FreeBSD - but Ubuntu is only a few keystrokes > away. > > More limiting is that still seems to need someone to wander around > with a laptop and click a lot. > > Looking for something that would allow me to manipulate the WAPs in > the environment and produce a map remotely. > > Kurt > > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 05:39, John Aldrich <jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com> > wrote: >> I did a quick search on Freshmeat.net and found something that might do the >> job... it's called "Wifi Scanner" and it's free. The catch is you have to be >> running linux. :-) So, get an inexpensive laptop, wipe it and install Ubuntu >> or something on it... :-) >> >> Here's a link to the project page: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wifiscanner >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 8:47 PM >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> Subject: Wifi monitoring >> >> All, >> >> Now that I have a Win7 Pro laptop of my very own at work, I have put >> some utilities on it to monitor my wifi environment. >> >> I've started with: >> InSSIDer >> Xirrus WifiMonitor gadget >> Ekahau Heatmapper >> >> I didn't put on PassMark's WirelessMon (it's only a 30-day eval, >> didn't want to be bothered with it.) >> >> I've also got the Android Wifi Analyzer app running on my phone. >> >> However, all of these are very limited, and are going to require lots >> of work to map my space, and to keep monitoring for rogue WAPs, etc. >> >> I'm aware of the Airtight, Cisco Clean Air, and several others, but >> I'm guessing they are way out of my price range, as their web sites >> all say "ask for a quote". >> >> Ideally, I'd like to find an app that I could use to poll my WAPs and >> use them to map my space to locate any other WAPs inside my building >> and their SSIDs - I'm thinking that triangulation via signal strength >> measurement at the various WAPs could create a useful map. >> >> For instance, I've found two SSIDs that are operating in ad hoc mode, >> and two that are operating in infrastructure mode, with relatively >> strong signals, but I simply don't have the time to walk around and do >> a survey, especially when the Ekahau free product will only do a 15 >> minute survey at a time. >> >> I've got 15 Cisco 1240AG units, so something that interoperates with >> them would be ideal. >> >> Anyone know of any relatively inexpensive (or even free) apps that >> might do this? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Kurt >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >> >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >> >> > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
