Wireless network diagnosis

[Christoph Georgi]

Thanks for the hint.. could it be that the signal of your neighbour's AP 
is not very persistent? I suppose not.. :/

Wireless is a really strange thing.. not very consistant at all (at 
least with non-enterprise equipment). And you never now what it's 
doing.. (Sry, I got a bit frustrated with wireless over here..)

.christoph


Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 02:50:58PM +1200, Christoph Georgi wrote:
> 
>>Now that you have configured the the essid on your machine to be 
>>'laniel', it's understandable that you can't see your neighbours AP 
>>anymore, isn't it? Try to broadcast your AP's essid and set your 
>>computer to essid 'any'. Now you should see both APs...?!
> 
> 
> No, the 'scan' function of 'iwlist' displays all the APs
> within range, not just the one I'm connected to. I've been
> using this for months. And in response to your question:
> doing 'iwlist eth0 scan' after setting the ESSID to 'any'
> now only displays the local ESSID, which is '<hidden>'.
> 
> Try 'iwlist eth0 scan' in an area where you know there are
> multiple APs. You'll see all of them listed, even if you're
> connected to just one of them.
> 

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