NetStumbler and the Proxim a/b/g wifi card ?

Does netstumbler work with the Proxim a/b/g wifi card and
does it tell me if an AP is a, b, or c.


Thanks

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On 19 Sep 2003 11:26:37 -0400, (E-Mail Removed) (Al Dykes) wrote:

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>Does netstumbler work with the Proxim a/b/g wifi card and
>does it tell me if an AP is a, b, or c.


You can download Netstumbler and test it.

It does but Netstumbler doesn't differentiate between a & b/g...


"FL" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On 19 Sep 2003 11:26:37 -0400, (E-Mail Removed) (Al Dykes) wrote:
>
> >
> >Does netstumbler work with the Proxim a/b/g wifi card and
> >does it tell me if an AP is a, b, or c.
>
>
> You can download Netstumbler and test it.

On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 05:25:28 +0100, "voldermort" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>It does but Netstumbler doesn't differentiate between a & b/g...

Also it seems to perform poorly relative to other cards. I compared the
Netstumbler performance of all the WiFi cards available to me, including the
Proxim a/b/g combo card, Cisco cards (340 and 350), and the Orinoco card that's
built into my laptop; the built-in Orinoco is by far the best in terms of
reception range and speed of AP acquisition. The Proxim seems to take a long
time to detect/acquire an AP, and, once it's acquired it, seems to hang on to it
and pretend it's still there even when you've moved out of range. Sometimes it
takes so long to acquire an AP that you've driven past it and out of range
before the Proxim card even knows it's there; you miss a lot of APs this way.

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Scott in Aztlan <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 05:25:28 +0100, "voldermort" <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:

>>It does but Netstumbler doesn't differentiate between a & b/g...

> Also it seems to perform poorly relative to other cards. I compared the
> Netstumbler performance of all the WiFi cards available to me, including the
> Proxim a/b/g combo card, Cisco cards (340 and 350), and the Orinoco card that's
> built into my laptop; the built-in Orinoco is by far the best in terms of
> reception range and speed of AP acquisition. The Proxim seems to take a long
> time to detect/acquire an AP, and, once it's acquired it, seems to hang on to it
> and pretend it's still there even when you've moved out of range. Sometimes it
> takes so long to acquire an AP that you've driven past it and out of range
> before the Proxim card even knows it's there; you miss a lot of APs this way.

someone mentioned that the a/b/g cards site surveyor would show the ssid
of an AP that turned off,is this true?