Tim Pozar writes: > For instance, using a decent spectrum analyzer for interference > issues. Many signals that would interfere with 802.11 will be > hard to track with 802.11 cards. A analyzer will have a much better > chance in catching an tracking down signals that are impairing your > links. > > We also should be using a carrier wave (CW) transmitter on the > center channel and an analog receiver or spectrum analyzer for > antenna alignment. Changes will be much faster to resolve as you > sweep through the beam and a CW spike is much easier to see in the > noise of the band.
Point of fact: 1) unless you have a rather expensive spectrum analyzer, 802.11b 'packets' will look a whole lot like (low, wide) noise. 2) Most NICs have a 'test' mode that puts the card into a continous transmit mode (required to get through FCC testing.) On a Prism 2 this is "test mode E". Jim -- "Perl is basically TECO-99." ---Barry Shein -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
