We have a motion J3500 (touch screen) which is great with 2x hot swappable batteries but it’s heavey as hell and we use (http://connect-a-desk.com/ ) to deal with that. One idea I’ve seen and will likely consider next time is buying Apple hardware and running windows on it. Their gear has good battery life, great touchpad, is light etc.. Though lacks USB ports… but there’s only 2 on our current device anyway.
Outside of that we use Ekahau site survey and the metageek products Chanalyzer and Eye PA I’ve also heard good things from a professional about using Fluke Aircheck as a very simply easy to carry around device to locate problems. From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan D Wang Sent: Saturday, 16 April 2016 4:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Network laptop apps/"tool" I would recommend you look at metageek's product line for this. Depending on how in depth you want to go, you can either get inSSIDer pretty cheap or spend a about 1000 and get a Wi-Spy dbx and Chanalyzer 5 to actually look at RF utilization. On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Allen Matthews <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I am looking for a laptop and software that would help me to troubleshooting wireless. I am curious about what you use to troubleshoot wireless. iMAC Windows Linux or Vendor tools. I am interest in both basic software and/or vendor tools. The basic software would be for student tech. -- Allen Matthews Network Engineer Gallaudet Technology Services Merrill Learning Center 2112 800 Florida Ave NE Washington, DC 20002 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. -- -------- Alan Wang Network Analyst | TH105 Binghamton University [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
