From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.100.24]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTPA id 419225 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Mon, 09 Oct 2006 19:32:39 -0400 Message-ID: <452ADC13.3050203@2rosenthals.com> Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 19:32:35 -0400 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060904 SeaMonkey/1.5a MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Funny site surveys (was: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: Status on WPA) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 10/09/06 07:19 pm, madodel thus wrote : > On 10/09/06 Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: >> On 10/09/06 03:58 pm, madodel thus wrote : >> I just used my T43 to do a site survey for a job Hautspot is working >> on. My site survey came up with no less than 12 AP's within range, >> and of course, ten of them were on channel 11. ;-) > > And half of those probably had an SSID of "Lynksys" or "Netgear"? > Don't you know it! Of the remaining channels, there was one on channel 6 and believe it or not, for whatever reason (probably because he either did it before the one on 6 came online, or because he thought since it was "one away" it would be safe), another on channel 5. Makes my job rather interesting when I've got to sneak in on channel 1 and hope that nobody else gets the bright idea... It also makes using WDS tricky, as there's no real room in the 2.4GHz 802.11b/g spectrum for a WDS channel, so I need to go to either 900MHz or 5GHz. -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------ Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC Accountants / Network Consultants New York / Northern Virginia www.2rosenthals.com eComStation Consultants www.ecomstation.com Novell Users Int'l www.novell.com/openenterpriseserver Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------