That and posting in these forums lead me to thinking, Knowing speed of light is a constant and that radio and microwaves also travel speed of light, it should be possible calculate the distance to an AP using ping or timestamp or such.
Using the Ping command is no good because it has only millisecond resolution. Is there time data in the AP polling process? I think that counting CPU cycles via the
Andrew, What is the process you use in Vistumbler to accomplish the ranging? In which data layer is this info found, int the physical layer, Transport layer, packets ect?
Does the results of Netsh command in Vista provide timing data?
I am fairly certain that accuracy will depend on processing speed of the target Ap/Router (I can assume that the majority of them run 300 MHz) , processor speed (assuming 1 GHz) and the time required to run the code?
This is more of a 'though experiment" than anything but having others to bounce ideas off of is nice.
