[kwlug disc.] detecting wireless

[Unsolicited]

To paraphrase another post to the list not long ago ... 'sounds like a
presentation topic to me!' (What d'ya mean run a script on a router!!!)

Cedric Puddy wrote, On 3/05/2007 12:01 PM:
> If you are using a "good" wireless router (like WRT54GL, with OpenWRT or 
> similar), then there is a kind of wireless environment audit script - 
> what it does is it uses the radio as a receiver, and has it just 
> *listen* on each band.  It then reports back how much electromagnetic 
> noise it got in each band, and how many times (out of 255 time per 
> second) it would have been able to use that particular channel.  Some 
> Cisco Access Points have a kind of text based graph of signal noise 
> across bands as well.  I haven't seen this feature built into most 
> consumer routers.
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>     -Cedric