Jeff Liebermann: your experience with FHSS spectrum analyzer programs?

Jeff,

Did you see my post regarding the HomeRF-based spectrum analyzer
program? Do you have this one or any other that uses FHSS
adapters for poor-man's spectrum analysis?

Regards,

Michael

On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:10:31 -0600, msg <msg@_cybertheque.org_> wrote:

>Did you see my post regarding the HomeRF-based spectrum analyzer
>program? Do you have this one or any other that uses FHSS
>adapters for poor-man's spectrum analysis?

Yeah. I'm buried in work. 10-12 hour days including weekends. That
will end in a few days and I'll try to catch up with postings.
Meanwhile, I have 4 of the Proxim something cards somewhere. They're
all rather insensitive. The "survey" program that comes with the
Proxim driver is really slow to sweep the band. It only covers Ch
1-11, not 13-14. It only runs on W98, WinME, and W2K. Won't run on
XP or Vista. In my never humble opinion, it's a bad idea for anything
other than tinkering. I once posted a video clip of what the screen
looks like to show the lousy sweep speed, but I removed it after the
hits went to zero.

There are also a bunch of similar cards and software being sold on
eBay. I know nothing about them.

See:
<http://www.metageek.net>
for Wi-Spy. I have one of the originals. Works fine but is also
rather insensitive. Search this newsgroup for my comments on it.

Digging through my bookmarks mess:
<http://www.wireless.org.au/~jhecker/specan/>
<http://www.nutsaboutnets.com>

Now, go away for a while so I can work.
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Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us> hath wroth:

>I once posted a video clip of what the screen
>looks like to show the lousy sweep speed, but I removed it after the
>hits went to zero.

I found it:
<http://802.11junk.com/jeffl/crud/Proxim7400-01.avi> (2.5MBytes)
This is my access point on Ch1. I think it was the slow sweep mode.
Medium and fast mode don't show much spectra. Yech.

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Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com
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Jeff Liebermann wrote:

> Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us> hath wroth:
>
>
>>I once posted a video clip of what the screen
>>looks like to show the lousy sweep speed, but I removed it after the
>>hits went to zero.
>
>
> I found it:
> <http://802.11junk.com/jeffl/crud/Proxim7400-01.avi> (2.5MBytes)
> This is my access point on Ch1. I think it was the slow sweep mode.
> Medium and fast mode don't show much spectra. Yech.
>

Indeed, that is just about useless; thanks for posting the link.

In my previous thread on this topic I was referring to the product
from 'nutsaboutnets.com'; do you happen to have this one? I have
tried their downloads but 'no go' (issues I'll relate to you off-
usenet when you have a spare moment).

Regards,

Michael

msg <msg@_cybertheque.org_> hath wroth:

>In my previous thread on this topic I was referring to the product
>from 'nutsaboutnets.com'; do you happen to have this one?

Nope. Never heard of it, never downloaded it, no time to try it.
Maybe later.

>I have
>tried their downloads but 'no go' (issues I'll relate to you off-
>usenet when you have a spare moment).

Please, no more projects for a while.

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150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com
Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558