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    I Need A wireless Network Sniffer

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by therock, Mar 27, 2008.

  1. therock

    therock Notebook Evangelist

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    I have a HP laptop, Vista HP, and would like to optimize my wirless by seeing what channels the neighbors are using and set mine to run on one with less or no traffic.

    I have tried Netstumbler but it will not show anything. Open for suggestions.
     
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  2. blue68f100

    blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso

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    Some routers have a site survey feature.

    Netstumbler will but I do not think it runs on vista.
     
    blue68f100, Mar 27, 2008
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    sgip2000 Notebook Consultant

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    Try Wireshark. It's free to download and works with most WLAN cards.
     
    sgip2000, Mar 27, 2008
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    Vista has a cool network gadget that you can get from the sidebar ..has all the stats etc...works well...xirius or something like that...
     
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    I got Wireshark. I would love to see what my neighbors channels are set to, but I have no idea how to use this program...lol. It is real complex.
     
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  6. therock

    therock Notebook Evangelist

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    @ sgip2000 - Got Wireshark and it's showing data. thanks.

    I cannot see any channel info or 802.11 anything to show. Looks like it's only showing my stuff.
    Anyone know the setup?
     
    therock, Mar 27, 2008
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