I got a Fluke AirCheck this summer and have found its locate feature to work quite well with the (optional) directional antenna. It graphs the signal strength and also can play sounds (lower/slower = farther, higher/quicker = closer). My student workers have been able to quickly pick up how to use it and effectively track down devices.
http://www.flukenetworks.com/enterprise-network/network-testing/AirCheck-Wi-Fi-Tester Josh Robertson Network Systems Senior Engineer Old Dominion University Office of Computing & Communications Services (757)683-5046 [email protected] http://occs.odu.edu/ -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeff Kell Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 12:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Client location / tracking... I was wondering what other folks are doing for "client location" in cases where you have a problem with a client, random interference, trying to locate a stolen device, etc. We are an Aruba shop and have Airwave, which will get you in the general vicinity; but in crowded or multi-floor buildings it's really just a rough guesstimate. There are numerous tracking / pinging / location utilities for identifying APs, but not that much for tracking actual clients. I would guess you need a promiscuous mode wireless adapter/driver combination and some sort of directional antenna at the very least, but rather than second guess myself and start playing around with Pringles cans <grin> I thought I'd ask first rather than reinventing the wheel. Thanks in advance, Jeff ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. -- BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS ------------------------------------------------------ Teach CanIt if this mail (ID 703876852) is spam: Spam: https://www.spamtrap.odu.edu/b.php?i=703876852&m=0dca622ad5fe&t=20120921&c=s Not spam: https://www.spamtrap.odu.edu/b.php?i=703876852&m=0dca622ad5fe&t=20120921&c=n Forget vote: https://www.spamtrap.odu.edu/b.php?i=703876852&m=0dca622ad5fe&t=20120921&c=f ------------------------------------------------------ END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
