[KLUG Members] multiple wireless networks

[Mark Bystry]

i'm a little late to the game but have you considered wifi-radar? i use this in ubuntu and it works 
rather well with multiple hot-spots. you could check http://rpm.pbone.net for an f4 rpm or go to 
wifi-radar and compile from source.

http://wifi-radar.systemimager.org/

mark


Daniel Hedlund wrote the following on 10/8/2006 2:29 PM:
> Eric,
> 
> Eric Beversluis wrote:
>> My original concern was this: In my apartment Windows shows several
>> other networks available. I wanted to be sure I was using my own
>> (WEP-securied) network. Can I assume that if eth1 shows
>> "ESSID:'default'" that that's what's happening? 
> 
> 'default' is a common name used by most wireless access points.  If it 
> was me, I'd set up my wireless router to use a unique SSID that I 
> wouldn't expect anyone else in the area to use.  It could be a nickname, 
> something that describes you or your network, etc.  I would then set the 
> SSID of my wireless card to only connect to the SSID I decided upon, and 
> not any SSID in range.  Some people hide their SSID from the world, 
> meaning their router doesn't broadcast it, to prevent other people from 
> casually stumbling upon it and trying to connect.  Products like 
> netstumbler and kismit can usually detect networks with 
> hidden/non-broadcast SSIDs anyway though, so you'd never really be safe 
> from finding your network.  There are even spectrum analyzers that can 
> be used independently or hooked up to a computer and can find out 
> whether just about any wireless network exists.
> 
> One of the more important uses of 'iwlist scanning' is to determine if 
> there are any other wireless networks using the same frequency range as 
> your network.  If you're using a conflicting frequency range then it may 
> result in lower performance for your network and others'.  You can 
> probably check this stuff from within Windows though.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Daniel Hedlund
> daniel at digitree.org
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