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Old 11-07-2004   #11 (permalink)
Nerdtalker
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Originally Posted by Apollyon
I have Netstumbler picking up an AP on every pass at one spot on a road over a mile from any buildings. Things like that can well throw off your averaging.
Same. I've seen access points seem to go out of distance, and then come back un-expectedly because I've regained LOS, or something interfered with LOS when I picked it up the first time.

It'd be extremely hard to compensate for that unless you had a representation of all topographical features, buildings, and other signal impediements.

I think seeing signal plotted on map (eg with the line changing color as snr/power level changes) would be the best indicator of where the AP is.
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