On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:57:48 +0100, LR <lrme@privacy.net> wrote:

>On 26/04/2009 21:43, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
>
>> I'm still mystified as to what's happening. I'm doing something to
>> confuse the program. Perhaps it's having trouble dealing with 24
>> SSID's. I guess more trial and error will eventually deduce the
>> cause.

>Perhaps it's the size of the area you are trying to cover rather than
>the number of AP's.

That's possible, but I doubt it.

>My limited testing showed that I needed to use a
>large number of hits in an AP's location and even then the display was
>not perfect.

How large? I ran another test, but didn't bother posting the results.
Instead of walking around the loop near my house, I walked down the
road in front of my house (about 100 meters) and back. That reduced
the number of AP's heard from 24 to 8. Same problem.

>I did not use a map but used the grid display and my home
>AP as the start point. The resulting map for my home AP covered the
>whole of the grid but the coverage maps for the other AP's were
>restricted to within a few squares of the the route I had taken and
>where I had obtained readings and did not cover the whole grid.

I get roughly the same thing when I do it indoors.

>Did you notice that as you conduct the survey the line that is drawn
>is the colour of the signal strength, this is replaced by a solid green
>line on the completion of the survey.

Yes. The color is almost always orange. I wasn't paying attention to
the signal strength values shown.

>Doesn't your version of the 701 have a:-
>Fn + Prt Sc (Ins): Toggles the “Print Screen” key to
>initiate screen capture utility to capture, save, or
>print the contents of entire desktop.
>I did notice that some functions depend on the model
><http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/EeePC/EeePC701SD/EeePC701SD_XP_0730.zip>

That would work. If not, there are other screen grab utilities that
can do the job. However, it would be nice if the internal screen
grab button had a keyboard shortcut.

I'll play with this some more around the office and with a virgin XP
or Vista laptop. I'm beginning to think it might be a side effect of
the large number of shims for network monitoring utilities I have
installed in my laptops.

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