Comments on: Ekahau HeatMapper maps out WiFi signals

By: bothersaidpooh

bothersaidpooh — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:30:50 +0000

maybe use those wifi antenna chips (ceramic antennas) to build a wifi imaging device?

just spin the antenna array and feed the captured data to a computer.

By: apartments rent

apartments rent — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:54:52 +0000

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By: Whig

Whig — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:29:05 +0000

I tried this tool some time ago:
http://www.petrilopia.net/wordpress/software/ekahau-heatmapper/
and it really worked like a dream :-) Strange how it’s still free…

By: Grafton

Grafton — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:37:14 +0000

this is over rated, check out wigle.net to see real wi-fi mapping

By: number11

number11 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:36:58 +0000

The time limit is a killer, the earliest points you mapped start disappearing. I tried to map a city block, I don’t think it’s possible to get it done before you hit the limit. Not on foot, anyhow. Need a way to defeat that limit.

By: glonq

glonq — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:33:10 +0000

Having used ekahau’s tracking tags before, I gotta say that they’ve got a pretty clever product. Glad to see that they’re offering up a little bit of it for free.

By: Mario

Mario — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:57:15 +0000

Just ran a scan of our office – over 35k square feet – just walked the perimiter of the call center and down the hall ways of the offices.

Works great! This is going in our security book for our wifi scan for PCI!

An iPhone app would be great. Things were cramped on my Acer Aspire One.

By: EisFrei

EisFrei — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:55:09 +0000

I just checked, it won’t run using wine 1.0.1, crashing with a Java exception originating from sun.awt

By: James

James — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:05:29 +0000

@Jon Roelofs: It’s already been done for pocket pc, its called visiwave, and it costs in the thousand(s) of dollars IIRC. It’s nice to see an alternative that doesn’t cost an arm, a leg and your first born.

By: Gerrit Coetzee

Gerrit Coetzee — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:05:25 +0000

@steve
@steve

dammit. yes. when you pronounce my name incorrectly… oh god. bad memories

By: Steve Watkins

Steve Watkins — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:49:27 +0000

if “coatzee” is a hint at what i think it is then i agree with bad memories. the days before we were desensitized.

By: Gerrit Coetzee

Gerrit Coetzee — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:01:44 +0000

@steve
it’s not coAtzee, it’s CoEtzee, big difference. It’s an Afrikaans name so it’s got some sounds that aren’t quite in English, but you can get pretty close saying “could-see-a”. Either way, I’ve never heard of my last name giving anyone bad memories. I’m interested to hear why.

By: Ducky

Ducky — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:24:21 +0000

The idea behind the app is great, the implementation is better than anything I’ve seen.

However, the 15minute time limit is terrible. I decided to try map out my school (work) and see if it’ll find dead spots etc, however it would randomly crash, sometimes after 15 minutes, and occasionally after around 5minutes. You don’t have a chance to save the screenshots of the app at all, it’s just all gone.
It did work out where the points where almost exactly though which was cool.
I would use this app a lot more if it didn’t have the 15minute time limit, and perhaps allowed you to save the path, so you can go back and do another path.

I’m hoping that the prices aren’t anywhere near as expensive as fynflood mentioned above, I wouldn’t mind shelling out maybe $100 or so for a version of this app that allows saving and no time limit.

Ducky

By: steve

steve — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:01:33 +0000

man this last guy’s name brings back some bad memories
“coatzee”…

By: Chee

Chee — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:09:07 +0000

The interface is a little cramped on an Asus Eee 1000HA (10″) but its still very useful.