Scott:
May be worth checking out as another cheap app for site survey purposes.
Jim
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From: "Hanset, Philippe C" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 2:15 PM
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Site survey tools
Rick,
Funny that you mention that. We did a comparison yesterday between
a Fluke AirCheck and an Iphone4 using WiFiFoFum.
The AirCheck was consistently 15 dBm better than the Iphone.
(consistent with your data)
Since Iphone like devices are showing all over campus much more than
Fluke Aircheck, we have decided to corroborate our predictive surveys
done in Airwave with Iphone or Ipod Touch running WiFiFoFum.
Unfortunately, WiFiFoFum is not available at the AppStore anymore,
but you can get it via Cydia. $2.99.
Best,
Philippe Hanset
Univ. of TN, Knoxville
www.eduroamus.org
On Jan 21, 2011, at 1:28 PM, Rick Brown wrote:
We have been using Motion Computing Tablet PC's with Cisco's CB21 wireless
adapter card and the Site Survey Utility for conducting manual site
surveys. Originally we had found that due to the nature of the buildings
on our campus that a manual survey was much faster than using any of the
predictive software such as AirMagnet and Siteplanner.
We are starting to see problems with the older tablets. Replacing them
doesn't seem to be an option since most tablets aren't coming with PCMCIA
slots anymore. We've looked at the Fluke AirCheck meters but they tend to
show RSSI anywhere from 10dbm to 20dbm better signal than what it really
is.
Are any of you still doing manual surveys? And what equipment and app are
you using to read signal levels, etc.?
Thanks!
Rick
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