TechIdiots Forum

Posted: **Sun Feb 10, 2008 1:27 pm**

First off, thank you so much for building this! It's a great app.

I'm still getting my feet under me when it comes to wireless technology. I recently purchased 2 new laptops with wireless n cards, one for the wife and one for me. I also picked up a linksys wrt350n which is also wireless n capable.

Lately I have been having been seeing a llot of dropped connections with just one laptop (mine of course, wife's fine). So I have been digging into how this wifi stuff works to see if I can figure out what's up. I found out how to netsh today and then stumbled into your application. I had netstumbler on my old xp laptop.

One quick question, when I use Vistumbler v7.4 beta, the radio type for my network says Wireless G. I was wondering if that means my router is in G mode instead of N? Or does this application doesn't see the difference between G and N? I check my router and it's still set to Network Mode: Wireless-N only?

If you need a beta tester using a Wireless-N network, please let me know. I'm an IT Project Manager (dev web apps) so I have plenty of experience with testing and would be happy to help.

Thanks again for building the app!

Posted: **Sun Feb 10, 2008 7:53 pm**

I think this is a netsh thing. I don't have a N card so i don't know for sure, but according to this post netsh does display wireless g for wireless n networks. http://forums.cnet.com/5208-7589_102-0. ... ID=2684597

the other possibility is that if you have a built in g card it may be using that to get information from.

Posted: **Mon Feb 11, 2008 4:01 pm**

As far as I have seen, Wireless-N networks have shown up in Vistumbler as Wireless-G networks.
If you look at the info below, I was useing a Linksys USB wireless-N card, and NetSH polled the SSID 'oswifi' and 'osguest' as 802.11g and as you can see by the attached screenshot I was connected at 802.11n speeds

Code: Select all

oswifi|00:17:DF:9F:3D:CF|Cisco|100%|WPA2-Personal|CCMP|802.11g|11|N 0.0000000|E 0.0000000|1 2 5.5 11|0 6 9 12 18 24 36 54|02-11-2008 15:55:15 2137|02-11-2008 15:55:43 396|Infrastructure|Unknown|100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100
oswifi|00:17:DF:9F:9C:BF|Cisco|5%|WPA2-Personal|CCMP|802.11g|11|N 0.0000000|E 0.0000000|1 2 5.5 11|0 6 9 12 18 24 36 54|02-11-2008 15:55:15 2139|02-11-2008 15:55:43 398|Infrastructure|Unknown|5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5
osguest|00:17:DF:9F:3D:CE|Cisco|100%|Open|WEP|802.11g|11|N 0.0000000|E 0.0000000|1 2 5.5 11|0 6 9 12 18 24 36 54|02-11-2008 15:55:15 2143|02-11-2008 15:55:43 402|Infrastructure|Unknown|100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100-100
osguest|00:17:DF:9F:9C:BE|Cisco|5%|Open|WEP|802.11g|11|N 0.0000000|E 0.0000000|1 2 5.5 11|0 6 9 12 18 24 36 54|02-11-2008 15:55:15 2144|02-11-2008 15:55:43 403|Infrastructure|Unknown|5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5

Posted: **Fri May 30, 2008 10:06 am**

I just noticed I am starting to see 802.11n networks in vistumbler. MS must have updated netsh

TechIdiots Forum

Wireless N?

Wireless N?

Re: Wireless N?