From: Martin Joseph (martyNT_at_barknaturalpet.com)
Date: Mon May 16 2005 - 12:33:06 PDT
On May 16, 2005, at 11:24 AM, Zoont Foomby wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> With these questions about range and signal quality floating around,
> it raises a question I keep tumbling over - does the Newton have any
> program that allows WiFi network exploration?
Not currently.
> I think I read that
> Ministumbler will never be ported, for example, but how do we know
> what WiFi networks are in range if we do not have
> A) Another computer
> B) the Network setup by ourself?
> C) Someone else to tell us?
You can't (see above)
>
> I haven't played with WEP, and I don't know about Newtons and WEP, but
> what about if there are simply 5 different open, free, useable WAPs in
> equidistant from the Newton - how do we choose which one we use, and
> how do we even know they are there?
YOU CAN'T. You need to know specifically the SSID and if WEP is used
obviously the key. If you don't know specifically which network name
you want to connect to, you are SOL.
Marty
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