Improving Windows 7 WLAN Associate/Disassociate Aggressiveness
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2016 12:07 am
Hi guys -
My setup in the truck has another function besides being a wardriving platform (what??? say it ain't so!!!). The Mobius dashcam is used by a program called Yawcam to grab a still every 20 seconds or so and attempt to FTP it to my server at jonadams.com. And being Windows, it's very non-aggressive with associating and then disassociating from an AP. For instance, when I pull away from the house, the computer may take a minute or two being out of range of the rooftop AP before it will realize that and show the little fuzzy orange ball in front of the WLAN icon in the system tray, indicating that it's not connected, but there are connections available. And then other times, it will connect to something like "CoxWiFi" or "CableWiFi" APs around town and will never gracefully disconnect, instead throwing a bright yellow/black exclamation point atop the WLAN icon.
I'd like the WLAN to be relatively aggressive in its behavior, and to quickly drop the connection if things aren't good. Any ideas on how to make that so? Oh, and do this while continuing to allow Vistumbler to do its job?
Cheers - Jon N7UV
My setup in the truck has another function besides being a wardriving platform (what??? say it ain't so!!!). The Mobius dashcam is used by a program called Yawcam to grab a still every 20 seconds or so and attempt to FTP it to my server at jonadams.com. And being Windows, it's very non-aggressive with associating and then disassociating from an AP. For instance, when I pull away from the house, the computer may take a minute or two being out of range of the rooftop AP before it will realize that and show the little fuzzy orange ball in front of the WLAN icon in the system tray, indicating that it's not connected, but there are connections available. And then other times, it will connect to something like "CoxWiFi" or "CableWiFi" APs around town and will never gracefully disconnect, instead throwing a bright yellow/black exclamation point atop the WLAN icon.
I'd like the WLAN to be relatively aggressive in its behavior, and to quickly drop the connection if things aren't good. Any ideas on how to make that so? Oh, and do this while continuing to allow Vistumbler to do its job?
Cheers - Jon N7UV