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Erskine 2002-2015 All Commercial Rights Reserved My Bitcoin Address - Please Donate NOTE: Some pictures on this site are contributed by persons who have built this antenna, all pictures on this site are used with the permission of their author(s). Please send me a picture of your effort and let me know how it went. E-Mail Here FAQ Here Gallery of Successful Builds Advantages over other antennas such as the Pringles Can Antenna I needed a parabolic reflector to eliminate off property coverage. The drawing can be scaled upon a copy machine to make a dish of any reasonable size. There is a square drawn upon the diagram. Focal length varies with the size of the dish (but proportionally) therefore the focal point is also shown on the drawings.

Parabolic reflectors also loose gain if your finished reflector varies much from the correct curve. The reflector is designed to be fed by a dipole. The reflector is designed to be "square". The template is a bit large but be patient. Wifi Signal Strainer (WokFi) Long Distance. Top 10 Wi-Fi Boosts, Tweaks and Apps. All of these are very good tips to secure and optimize your network and wireless connection.

Top 10 Wi-Fi Boosts, Tweaks and Apps

In my case I have a Linksys WRT54GS and do not have any hacks (firmwares) on this router. After several tries I found what works for me. On the Basic tab I have changed the default Local IP address to something other than 192.168.1.1 and also made my DHCP limit to 5 ips (I tried to go with Static IP Address but it was a hassel to setup laptops or any other wired/wireless device when I had a friend over). On the Wireless settings I changed the default SSID "Linksys" to my on personal seclection and change it from time to time. Since now all my devices are WPA2 compatible I have that as my security with a very long and good password (a combination of CAPS, lowercase, symbles, numbers, all the goodies for a strong password). So this is about it, I have had this setup for a while now and have not had any security Isues.

Victor (aka Tontito) Hidalgo, Texas, U.S.A. Download inSSIDer and Discover the Wi-Fi Networks Around You. Measure Wi-Fi Signal Strength at Your Home with HeatMapper. Has someone said to you,”Where’s the best wireless coverage around here?”

Measure Wi-Fi Signal Strength at Your Home with HeatMapper

 And you don’t have the time to tell them where all the wireless access points are because there are so many of them. Well, save some time explaining the same thing over and over and hand them a detailed map of your wifi coverage. If someone has already asked you this question before, you probably would have drawn a map by hand and just marked the access points, but it is much easier and more accurate to do it with professional software such as Ekahau HeatMapper.

Just download, install, run and you’ll be up and running in no time ready to map the wifi signal of your area. WiGLE - Wireless Geographic Logging Engine - Plotting WiFi on Maps. Helical Antenna for the 2.425GHz Wireless Networking Cards. Visually map nearby wifi signals with Ekahau HeatMapper. NetStumbler and inSSIDer are cool wireless utilities, but Ekahau Heat Mapper takes things one step further.

Visually map nearby wifi signals with Ekahau HeatMapper

When you launch HeatMapper, you'll have the opportunity to select a map image - say, one you put together using Autodesk Dragonfly. Wander around your location and click on the map every time you pause to take a reading, and HeatMapper rolls the collected data into a slick, interactive map. Hover over an access point, and the display updates to show its signal strength. Free Wi-Fi network scanner for Windows. EtherApe, a graphical network monitor. This IP Address Scanner Quickly Maps Your Home LAN. If you have a home network, then every device on that network will have an IP address.

This IP Address Scanner Quickly Maps Your Home LAN

I just counted up all the devices on my office LAN and there are 18 of them! A desktop PC, a laptop, a couple of CCTV cameras, the router, a phone, a clever little device for monitoring temperatures around the house, and more besides. With all that lot, it was definitely time to make a neat list of devices, and tidy up their allocation of IP addresses.

Most devices get their IP address from your router. The router has what's called a DHCP server, which is capable of allocating an IP address to any device that asks for one. Get the physical location of wireless router from its MAC address (BSSID) « coderrr. Get the physical location of wireless router from its MAC address (BSSID) Shameless Plug: Protect yourself with public wifi security while connected to public hotspots with a VPN Service.

Get the physical location of wireless router from its MAC address (BSSID) « coderrr

Update: Here’s a coverage map showing what areas they have data on. A nice company called SkyHook Wireless has been war driving the country for years. Basically they’ve been paying people to ride around in cars and record the unique IDs (BSSID, aka MAC address) that your wireless routers broadcast. Doesn’t matter if your router has encryption on or not, its BSSID is still public and in their database (if they’ve driven past your house). For their API to work it requires you to install a browser extension. So why can’t you just send any BSSID you want? So to keep things short. Send an HTTPS POST request to api.skyhookwireless.com/wps2/location with XML in the following format: <? You’ll receive back either this (success!) <? Or this (failure!) <? Usage:getloc.rb aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff. OutSSIDer WiFi scanner.