Net stumbler

Its a tool for experts to locate nearby networks.

If you don't know what it is, you dont need it.

are wardrivers experts? ;p

haven't really used it since XP came out ... any additional benefits?

To a degree. A war driver will at least under stand the general basics behind 802.11 channels, SSIDS, WEP, etc...

The new version supports more cards.

Well, thanks a bunch for all the help. I was just wondering how one becomes an expert. So let me get this. If I don't know what something is for, then I don't need it.

Thanks

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@kroman wrote:

Well, thanks a bunch for all the help. I was just wondering how one becomes an expert. So let me get this. If I don't know what something is for, then I don't need it.

Thanks

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Spend some time learning how the technology works. You are welcome to join the fray, and you are welcome to learn how this all works. I didn't mean to imply you weren't welcome. The way your quesiton was worded, though, implied to me that you weren't intereted so much in the technology in general, and only about getting it working. Hence my answer, in case, of 'if you don't know, you don't need it'.

If you want to really learn how it all works, by all means please do the research and ask whatever question you can come up with.

Thanks! No problem. I will do some research!

It seems to me that the boards "ARE" part of ones research and ya'll have done both he and i a disservice. Him for snubbing him like you did, and me, doing research for a home wireless network i'm installing next week.

OK Kroman since the "experts" can't seem to pull their heads o....nevermind.  My take on Net stumbler novice to novice, "you" can use it to test where a good location for your wireless base would be. On the other hand a corporate type could use it to test his business wireless network or to see if there are any leeches otherwise known as wardrivers where people with nothing better to do than to go around to see whose wireless network they can infiltrate.

dude, don't hate ... the first answer (not mine, which have always been positive) basically said XP can cover things that stumbler does

XP can see what networks are broadcasting in a particular area ...  you don't really need the other program unless you have a more specific use for it

yeah

Netstumbler is an extremely extremely helpful piece of software. What you can do with it is:

1. detect nearby wireless networks (xp and dell radio will do this)

2. view detailed info on nearby wireless networks (xp doesn't exactly do this, but dell radio kinda does)

3. view detailed technical info on multiple networks simultaneuosly (xp and dell radio don't do this)

Its kinda cool- it gives you everything. It gives you what kind of hotspot is in range, whether is secured or unsecured, the mac address, the brand name, signal strength, what channel its on, and its also compatible with GPS, but I haven't had the chance to fool with that yet.

When detecting networks, it automaticly refreshes. If you go driving down the street, it will constantly populate the screen with new SSID, and you can watch (in real time) the signal strength increase, peak, and decrease as you go closer/farther away from the hotspots. You will also be able to tell whether or not the hotspot is a single router, or a bunch of repeaters covering a wide area (eg- a college campus or hotel).

Another thing you can do with it is walk around your own house/yard to see info on all the boundries of your wifi router's signal.