Re: Advice before buying a Wireless Site Survey Kit

[Colin Vallance <crvallance () gmail com>]

I'll back up Airmagnet.  As a consultant wireless engineer this is a must
for surveys.  You may also consider looking at a spectrum analyzer product
to get the "whole story" regarding the RF in the area at a given time.
Cisco's spectrum expert has been the product of choice for us however they
currently don't have a usb adapter.  Airmagnet's spectrum XT is usb capable
but not my favourite for some bugs and limitations I've run across.  WiSpy
seems to be the lost cost product that is out there but I've got no
experience with it myself.



On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Butturini, Russell <
Russell.Butturini () healthways com> wrote:

> We use Airmagnet.  It will do EXACTLY what you are looking for.  We used to
> use laptop analyzyer and the all in one kit.  Such a great product!
>
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> Hi Guys,
>
> I need to get one or more commercial wireless site survey kits (Ideally
> usable on existing MacBook Pro's or Windows Laptops)
>
> I have a few dollars to spend and am wanting to see if anyone out there
> could recommend a good commercial offering or two.
>
> I need something which is going to stand up to some punishment and last for
> quite a few site surveys,  across a number of office buildings.
>
> Ideally the Product should be able to map the location and strength of the
> access points it finds to an operator supplied floor plans or an image file.
> Ideally it should be able to find both "active and passively probing"
> access points.
>
> I am after something which I can hand over to junior staff to run.
>
> Ideally the solution would have to be fairly accurate and identify the
> difference between unencrypted, WEP, WPA and WPA2 Networks.
> (If it has the ability to demonstrate WEP or WPA cracking via GPU enabled
> video cards then that would be an added bonus.
>
> What would you guys recommend?
>
> Thanks
> Mark
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