Hi,
I have a curious problem. At home in Bangalore (India) my laptop informs me about a wifi source. I do not know where it comes from.
Is there any way I can find out more about the source and/or company that is transmitting it?
Thanks, Arvind
Hi,
I have a curious problem. At home in Bangalore (India) my laptop informs me about a wifi source. I do not know where it comes from.
Is there any way I can find out more about the source and/or company that is transmitting it?
Thanks, Arvind
You can usually get a clue from the SSID (name) of the wireless "source". However, if it's non-descript, the only other alternative is to do some direction finding. This is not easy, takes some practice, but works fairly well.
The basic trick is to have:
There are many tricks to doing direction finding. Just fumbling around looking for the strongest signal is a guaranteed failure. You will be fooled by reflections and obstructions. What I do is use a map. I locate myself and take a bearing. With the bearing, I draw a line on the map from my location. I then move to another location and draw another line. Do this often enough, over a long baseline, and the majority of the lines will cross one point on the map. There will be some lines going off in random directions. Just ignore those. This works especially well while moving in a vehicle.
There is also software that will do this automatically.
Good luck.
Thanks. This is way beyond what I can do!! But it helps to know
Well, then let me suggest a way that you can do it with just your laptop.
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