FYI As a former shareware developer I'd just like to point out that you do have to pay for shareware. It's the try-before-you-buy model. Usually you can try it for up to 30 days and usually it's not much, I only charged $10 for SimplyEdit (Scriptable DOS editor of the late 80's made by Bungee Software(TM)). Using it longer means you are infringing on the copyright and liable for $150,000 per copy plus the cost of the product and legal costs of the developer collecting your payment.
If you are looking for freeware or open source software then payment is optional. Unfortunately, I don't know of a good low cost scanner for Mac or Windows, Kismet is good for Linux, but I've never been able to get it working on a Mac (you have to use a special open source driver). I've heard about someone charging $20 for an easy to install and scan capable driver for the Orinoco 802.11b cards on Macintosh, but I haven't had the time to check it out. -- Daniel << When truth is outlawed; only outlaws will tell the truth. >> - RLiegh On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Thomas Koch wrote: ]Can anyone recommend a decent sharware sniffer? I'm looking for ]something that can detect signal strength, signal speed, and if it has ]a pw enabled or not. Trial and error from the airport list gets ]annoying sometimes, especially if there is a huge list and only 1 of ]them ends up being accesible. I'm also willing to buy an app as long as ]its not that expensive. $3K is way out of my league. :-( ] ]Thanks in advance, ] ]Thomas Koch ] ]-- ]NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ ]Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ ]Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ ] -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
