Erik de Castro Lopo <[email protected]> writes:
> darrin hodges wrote:
>
>> The aircrack-ng <http://www.aircrack-ng.org/> suit contains a utility that
>> will list AP's.
>
> Sorry, any program whose getting started tutorial [0] has a first
> step of "Determine the chipset in your wireless card" is going in
> the wrong direction.
>
> I have absolutely no interest in cracking other peoples wifi. What
> I'd like to do if figure out which channel in my local area is the
> least congested so I can park my AP on that channel.

Cool.  Don't forget that if you are using 2.4GHz there are *three* channels,
no matter what the card says: only 1, 6, and 11 are non-overlapping, so you
will get a performance hit from anything that crosses over between them.

        Daniel
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