Spectrum analysis?

Outback Dingo outbackdingo at gmail.com
Mon Oct 8 18:58:52 UTC 2012


On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 12:07 PM, matt <sendtomatt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/08/12 03:15, Sven Hazejager wrote:
>> Is there a way to do a spectrum analysis for the wifi band with ath on
>> CURRENT? I would like to understand which channels give me the best
>> signal/noise ratio (my baby monitor completely blows our wifi away)
>> above and beyond other 802.11 activities. Does not need to be fast.
>> Mikrotik has something like this; they use standard Wifi equipment to
>> analyze 20MHz at a time with 10MHz increments, creating a nice heat
>> map of the available spectrum...
>>
>> Thanks!
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> Kismet in ports has a view mode which does this fairly well.
>
> Matt
>

http://blog.brixandersen.dk/2006/12/14/wi-spy-spectrum-analyzer-usable-under-freebsd/

Wi-Spy USB 2.4 Ghz Spectrum Analyzer, I believe the software builds on FreeBSD

Ive used an application called Insidder also from Metageek, it was
available for linux, theres also a window, mac and android version

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