![]() ![]() 2.4 GHz Channels – another graph displaying the signal strength (amplitude) of only the 2.4 GHz WLANs that inSSIDer finds.Time Graph – displays the up’s and down’s of the WLANs’ signal strengths (color-coded for easy viewing).Welcome – contains links from the MetaGeek website.The functionality of inSSIDer is expanded by the functions of four tabs that appear in the user interface. Latitude and Longitude – used in conjunction with inSSIDer’s GPS functionality (described below).Last Seen – displays the time when inSSIDer last saw the WLAN (presumably before it went offline).First Seen – displays the time when inSSIDer first detected the WLAN.Ad hoc mode enables direct peer-to-peer transmissions between wireless-capable devices without the intervention of an AP. In infrastructure mode, wireless-capable devices communicate through an access point that serves as a bridge to a wired network infrastructure. Network Type – only two choices here: infrastructure or ad hoc.Vendor – the manufacturer of the wireless AP, such as Linksys, Netgear, D-Link, etc.802.11g can theoretically reach 54 megabits per second (Mbs) 802.11n can surpass even this speed. Max Rate – the theoretical maximum data transmission rate for the WLAN.MAC Address – the MAC address of the wireless access point (AP).Other possibilities are WEP, WPA-TKIP (aka WPA Personal), and RSNA -CCMP which is the same as WPA2- CCMP. ‘None’ means no encryption is used leaving that WLAN wide open. Security – the type of encryption the WLAN uses to secure its transmissions. ![]() The lower, the stronger (for example, my WLAN whose AP is ten feet away is rated -36 while more distant WLANs are -67 to -88). RSSI – the received signal strength indicator, or measurement of the power (signal strength) present in a received radio signal.Channel – the channel that the WLAN is operating on.SSID – the service set identifier or name of the WLAN.InSSIDer works just the same as NetStumbler: you simply launch the executable and the program immediately begins scanning for and displaying information on the WLANs it finds.ĭetails about the WLANs detected are displayed in several columns as explained below. InSSIDer is available in four editions: inSSIDer Home v3.1.2.1 (free), inSSIDer v4 (commercial), inSSIDer Office (commercial), and inSSIDER for Android (free app). Like NetStumbler, InSSIDER is free but unlike NetStumbler, it is open source software ( Apache 2.0 license) and currently an alpha version of InSSIDER is available for installation on Linux (Linux page offline, cached here). In the meantime, NetStumbler has been surpassed by a similar wireless tool, InSSIDer by MetaGeek. To view a screen shot of NetStumbler in use you can use Google Images.Īlthough NetStumbler’s creator stated in February 2010 that he was working on a new version of NetStumbler that would be compatible with the latest Windows operating systems, this new release had not materialized by the time of this writing. The NetStumbler v0.4.0 main user interface ![]()
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