On 29/04/2009 10:56, LR wrote:
> On 27/04/2009 16:58, LR wrote:
>> On 27/04/2009 16:37, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> 4 of the houses I can get to all four sides so I did 2 readings per side.
>> Where I could only get to the front and back I did 3 readings per side.
>> If I could only get to one side of the house I did 3 readings again and
>> I also took a reading further away from the house to get some sense of
>> direction of the AP. I also took some random measurements further away
>> from the other houses for the same reason
>
> While we had some fine weather I re-installed the s'ware and did a quick
> check around the neighbourhood but this time I created the map from a
> .gif file instead of using the grid. This time using the "map" option I
> got a similar colour scheme to your files and the whole map was in a
> single colour but all the AP's, that I was able to get to front and
> rear, were in the correct position.
> There is evidently a difference between using the "Map" and "Grid" option.
>
I have just been on a longer walk using the grid option and the AP's
that were located correctly have in the majority moved to the edge of
the grid along with 48 other AP's, which has left just my router and 2
other AP's in the correct position. Because there are so many AP's
listed some are actually overlapping each other, which is very annoying.
However when you check the signal map for each AP you still get a
varying colour scheme, dependent on the signal strength, unlike the
single colour that was shown when using a map.