Re: Scanning for WiFI like inSSIDer on iOS & Macbook Pro & iMac

Horace Algier · 2016-09-12T20:11:33+00:00

I have kids in graduate school and there I see so many access points on my Android phone (using inSSIDer or WiFi Analyzer or WiFi SNR or Fritz WLAN) that I'm shocked how utterly filled the frequencies are. Where "I" live, there are extremely few people on *any* frequency, so, an old WRT54G would work just fine since nobody's router can spill onto another house purely because of distance (although we all have rooftop radios since that's how "we" get our Internet, and they *can* easily spill - but they're on specific horizontal and vertical channels to match the access point protocols). Where these people are, it should be somewhere in between, in that any nearby neighbor can easily step on their frequency (they're in an old factory warehouse style building from the 1800s that was renovated into condos probably within the past 10 years). But, remember, the *wired* signal at the router is half the wired signal at the modem (which is strange). The wired signal is not affected by the WiFi bands. The main thing I need to ask you guys is *how* to check for WiFi interference from the neighbors on an all-Apple household. On "my" iPad, I know to do this: I just tried AirPort () 1. I already have the AirPort utility from the Appstore 2. I went to Settings and found the "AirPort Utility" on the left 3. I have versi"No AirPort base stations have been found", and it also said "AirPort Utility will continue searching" WORLD: 5. I tapped the "World" icon which showed 3 pieces of information: a. Connection = connected b. Router Address = 192.168.1.1 c. DNS Server = 192.168.1.1 INFO: 6. On the top right, I taped on the blue "Wi-Fi Scan" 7. A white form titled "All Networks" came up 8. On the white "All Networks" form I tapped the (i) on the bottom right That summarized the 2.4GHz and 5 GHz devices as follows: 2.4GHZ - 4 Devices a. channel 1 = 1 device b. channel 6 = 1 device c. channel 7 = 1 device d. channel 11 = 1 device 5.0GHz - 1 Device channel 156 = 1 device WIFI SCAN: 9. I...