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    WIFI Mapper?

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by mechrock, Jun 28, 2009.

  1. mechrock

    mechrock Notebook Evangelist

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    Is there some software that allows to show what direction a certain wifi signal is coming from?
     
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    Hep! sees beauty in everything

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    You can only create a relative map based on distances if you have multiple APs to use as references.

    There was also this on hackaday recently.
     
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    mechrock Notebook Evangelist

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    Do you have to supply your own map or does it show approximately the location of the access points?

    I've seen something kind of like a radar that shows the location of the wifi do you by change know what that's called?
     
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    onebyside, Jun 28, 2009
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