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Site Survey + Wi-Spy = The Whole Picture

Mark — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:17:10 +0000

Site Survey + Wi-Spy = The Whole Picture

One of the great things about owning a Wi-Spy is that it not only works with MetaGeek's Chanalyzer application, but some really great third party applications as well. In particular, the site survey programs WirelessMon Pro and VisiWave are excellent tools for mapping out wireless coverage when deploying wireless networks. These applications incorporate Wi-Spy spectrum data into the site survey reports giving you a complete picture of the what's going on in your installation; signal coverage + interference laid out in easy to read maps and charts.

Since we're such big fans of these programs, and since Wi-Spy goes hand-in-hand with them, we're offering a discount (10%) off either WirelessMon or VisiWave when bought together with a Wi-Spy spectrum analyzer.

Check out VisiWave and WirelessMon Pro to take your Wi-Fi toolset to the next level!

XKCD Laughs

ChiefGeek — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:10:06 +0000

This comic at XKCD made me laugh... thought I'd share some geek humor :-)

New Release 1.2.3.1014

ssemoa — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:15:18 +0000

I think the new release shows incorrect values. What means Speed 11 or speed 24? In the previous release the speed for my 802.11n connections was shown as 54.

Understanding time at data file .wsr

jroldand — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:29:48 +0000

Good Afternoon!
I'm writing to you because i'd like to understand better how is measured the time in the file .wsr.
I read the specs of the wi-spy 2.4x, and i've found the sweep time is fixed at 165 msec (approx). Is it really fixed? or can i change it?.
Studying the file .wsr i've realized that for each frequency value there is a power value (dBm) at a specific time value (microseconds). If we have a sweep time (a IF filter, scanning the whole ISM band, frequency by frequency progressively), how could be possible to have in the file's table a single time value for all the frequencies in the band? Does it refer to the time at wich was measured the first frequency's power (2,4e9 Hz)? May you please clarify me this? Thanks in advance.

Best Regards
Jesus Roldan

Zigbee Compatibility

swolf — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:49:32 +0000

Hi, it looks like booth the 900x and the 2.4x both support Zigbee. I'm very new to this but could someone explain why Zigbee works at both 915 MHz and also 2.4 GHz? Also will the 900x version support all the lower level frequency ranges for simpler devices like RFID, Garage door openers, etc?

newbie: What GPS devices?

evofxdwg — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:37:43 +0000

I just installed inssider on my new HP laptop (running Vista but soon to be MS Win 7) and it works great. I dont have a GPS device (yet). Im not too familiar with available PC hosted GPS devices and the InSSider manual says nothing about compatibility. Is it pretty much compatible with any laptop GPS receiver? If not, which ones? Which ones are popular/preferred?

I own a Garmin Etrex (with serial port) and a Garmin Nuvi 765t (with USB). Is there any way i can get one of these to provide lat/long data to InSSider?

high power samples over standard 802.11 channel

jpj — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:38:39 +0000

can anyone identify the possible source of the area of hign power (+10dB) over a standard 802.11b network on channel 11 in the attached picture

thanks in advance

Here is my share of a scan from a Sonos music player

sylvainp — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:59:49 +0000

Here I would like to share a scan of a Sonos music system.

I use a Sonos Bridge and a Zone player 90. On this scan the Wi-Spy 2.4x was in my PC room a few feet away from the Zone Bridge. To see the Sonos in Chanalyser I need to stream music while I made the scan.

The Sonos was set on channel 1. The Sonos Music System use it's own network mesh called SonosNET 2.0

You can see that the Sonos Music system is using a wide band on the 2.4 Ghz. This scan really look like it is using wireless G and something else.
Also note you can also see my surrounding neighbours using channel 6

The Sonos Bridge is using SonosNET 1.0 and the ZonePlayer 90 is using SonosNET 2.0

Maybe this have something to do in the range and shape the Sonos is using.

Hope this could interest some of you.Sonos Music System

Migrating forum to vBulletin

ChiefGeek — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:27:05 +0000

The forum has become popular enough that we've decided it's time to look at a dedicated forum platform. MetaGeek.net uses the Drupal platform and the forum is currently just a Drupal forum, which is adequate, but lacks many of the features of serious forum platforms. After investigating the popular forum platforms out there we have settled on vBulletin.

The migration will be occurring over the next week and should be fairly smooth; we've tested it out and have over 95% of all posts converting, but image attachments will have to be migrated manually after the initial migration has been completed.

Why does an AP set to G mode only look like this, is this normal?

SpartanMan — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:19:43 +0000

image attached.

Where to download an old version ?

bigbangtherory592 — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:33:02 +0000

Because I removed the content of a temp folder, I can not uninstall Inssider v1.0.12.0317

The problem is that this fact block the v1.2.2.0918 installation.

Note: The requiered source installation file is located there C:\DOCUME~1\me\LOCALS~1\Temp\FreeCommander3580\2\

My question : where can I download the old installation file ? in order to correctly install then uninstall it.

New to Wi-Spy and need some help to understand my first interference capture

sylvainp — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:50:59 +0000

Here the scan in my living roomHere the scan in my living room

Well, I just bought Wi-Spy 2.4x and I received it today.

I have a Sonos system and I have been troubleshooting for a while to try to find the problem why I have music hicups, stop playing, ect. So I did alot of test and never been able to completly fix the problem.

With my apple touch and also Netstumbler I see the surrounding wifi. Most of them are on channel 6, 7 , 9

So I choose channel 1 for G Band and the A Band for the Xbox 360 on the Linksys WRT610N.

Then I set the Sonos on channel 1

So here a screenshot of 11 hours in the living room. At the time I was using wireless at channel 1 and the Sonos was also active but not streaming music at the time of capturing data.

If I look closely I can see in the background a pattern that it is using all the 2.4Ghz band and it seems to me to be maybe a Baby radio monitor.

I can also see their is not much going on in the section of channel 11 so this should not causing me some hicup while I play music on the Sonos.

Any help or recommendation will be very appreciated.

Here the scan in my living room

Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN is a no go

sllivk — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:17:51 +0000

Hello all,

My Asus W2W has an Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN card and inSSIDer presents no information or graphs. The program sounds fantastic and I'd like to get it working on my laptop. Any pointers?

sullivk

Start scanning = crash

kudos — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:30:09 +0000

Inssider version 1.2.0.0708 works perfectly but version 1.2.2.0918 crashes as soon as I click the "Start scanning" button.

Here's some details:

Computer: HP Compaq NX6110 laptop
OS: Windows XP SP3 Pro
Network: Broadcom 802.11 b/g WLAN
Driver: Version 5.10.105.0
WZC: In use - no other utilities

Error report:

[Message]
Critical error
[Version]
1.2.2.0918
[WinVer]
Microsoft Windows NT 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3
[StatckTrace]
System.Management.ManagementException: Critical error
at System.Management.ManagementException.ThrowWithExtendedInfo(ManagementStatus errorCode)
at System.Management.ManagementScope.InitializeGuts(Object o)
at System.Management.ManagementScope.Initialize()
at System.Management.ManagementObject.Initialize(Boolean getObject)
at System.Management.ManagementBaseObject.get_wbemObject()
at System.Management.ManagementClass.CreateInstance()
at Inssider.NdisWirelessInterface.ScanNetworks()
at Inssider.ScannerForm.ScanNetworks()

Any ideas?

FHSS radios

liquidcable — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:00:37 +0000

Can the Wi-Spy 2.4 detect a 2.4 GHz FHSS radio? Or just DSSS radios?