wifi scanner

Hegemony · 11-24-05, 02:53 AM

Anyone know of a program like ministumbler that will run on the x51v with WM 5.0?

Appendage · 11-24-05, 06:08 AM

Try WiFiFoFum

FoxxOTG · 11-24-05, 08:50 AM

*laughs menically* Radio and wifi are one of my hobbies... some good P/PC Wifi scanners

Ministumbler (PC Version is NetStumbler)
WiFiFoFum
Retnia WiFi Scanner (you can avoid the "SPAM Registration" by going to download.com and downloading it from there. There is a P/PC and PC version.)

http://www.herecast.com has a simple WiFi scanner as well

Know of any decent network scanners for pocket PC that can actually tell me the network names, PC names, and network shares? I have one now but all it can pull up is IP addresses. Im looking for a pocket PC version of Look@LAN.

Hegemony · 11-24-05, 07:10 PM

Thanks to both of you wififofum works perfectly. I'm off to wardrive.

01-02-06, 11:51 AM

Do you need to disable the dell wilan utility for theese to work?

dougsnell · 01-02-06, 12:11 PM

Originally Posted by magic.d

Do you need to disable the dell wilan utility for theese to work?

Nope. In fact, you need to turn on wireless.

Li0rE · 01-02-06, 01:12 PM

Wififofum looks so cool. I wonder if the places where it shows the networks are really there in relation to where you are standing :)

01-02-06, 01:37 PM

Wifi companion is pretty. you can get a three day trial here http://www.socketcom.com/product/SW1221-596.asp

dougsnell · 01-02-06, 02:31 PM

Originally Posted by Li0rE

Wififofum looks so cool. I wonder if the places where it shows the networks are really there in relation to where you are standing :)

Not always.

I found (at least at my house) it picks up the distance relatively well (remember, distance is not necessarily a straight line). The problem I had was it pointed the complete wrong way for my wireless router. That probably is something to remember anyway ... how do you know the signal you're picking up is directly in front of you, and not bouncing off of something directly in front of you?

But as I got closer to my router, the distance to the network on the screen got closer.

ikehiker · 01-02-06, 02:39 PM

There's no directionality to WiFi as far as the PPC is concerned. Just a strength of signal.

dougsnell · 01-02-06, 02:48 PM

Originally Posted by ikehiker

There's no directionality to WiFi as far as the PPC is concerned. Just a strength of signal.

I thought the same thing, but as I rotated my Axim (yaw, pitch, and roll ... for a lack of better descriptors), the direction of my router corresponded.

I can't say I can explain it, I can only observe and wonder.

Liquidator · 01-02-06, 09:07 PM

Wifi Graph is also a nice scanner, you can get it from here :)
However, I´m not sure whether it will run on WM5, you´ll have to try.

01-03-06, 12:19 AM

Originally Posted by magic.d

Do you need to disable the dell wilan utility for theese to work?

No, but some people will disable the connection notification pop-up screens in windows mobile because they can get annoying. I use wififofum.

coolbre304 · 01-03-06, 03:20 AM

Also a user of WiFiFoFum. For me, its like im looking at a mirror image(the position of the stuff is backwards) its wierd how it even knows where the stuff is.

dougsnell · 01-04-06, 01:00 AM

Originally Posted by coolbre304

Also a user of WiFiFoFum. For me, its like im looking at a mirror image(the position of the stuff is backwards) its wierd how it even knows where the stuff is.

That's more or less what I see, but it may not be exact. It's darn close.

What really throws me is I don't see how it can tell direction, but I have no better explanation for why some networks overlap each other's names.