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Old 07-29-2001   #4 (permalink)
 
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It already does #1

Netstmbler DOES log the signal as it's looking for WAPs. Go to the particular SSID, expand it, and click on the MAC you're interested in. Tada, a history of that station's signal strength! It's not obvious but the file appears to store the GPS coords of each part of the signal. Export it to text, run some backend processing, and you can even direction find the WAPs!

The speech stuff might be interesting down the road but right now I guess I'm looking to suggest functionality kinds of things rather than bells and whistles. I'm also trying to be sensitive to the fact that this project is a spare time only sort of thing for the programmer. This software is pretty cool and if Compaq releases their version "for pay" for the IPAQ I think that'll really stink. This product could probably be sold as-is for those that do wireless infrastructure for a living, thankfully the programmer has chosen not to go that route right now. If\when he gets tired of it perhaps he'll release source and the community can go nuts - then we'll see talking features and who knows what else (lol). Of course if this is just a fun thing to learn with maybe he'll do the speach stuff sooner rather than later. I just try to bear in mind that he's got a family to be with and try to ask for incremental improvements if possible. (shrug)
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