Wireless network discovery and visualization

Here I will list some use full tools for setting up your wireless network properly. There are a lot of tools for Linux and Windows xp for discovering wireless networks and their settings and signal strength but they usually does not support Windows Vista.

Here are the tools I discovered:

• Vistumbler
• Inssider

Vistumbler

Vistumbler is a tool for Vista like the NetStumbler. It is an AutoIt script that uses the netsh to get wireless information.

Vistumbler provides information like, SSID, Encryption, signal strength etc. Below are some screen shouts shown

The program supports also GPS location tracking, this means that you can collect the GPS coordinates belonging to the AP’s you discover and export them to NetstumblerToKML as shown below

Vistumbler is free and can be downloaded here

More info about Vistumbler can be found here

Inssider

Inssider is a simple free tool that allows you to visually see all wireless traffic. It graphs the signal strength along a timeline of each WLAN in a visual, simple-to-understand format.

Each network will be listed with the information discovered about it.

It is also possible to se a graph of the signal strength over time.

Download Inssider here

More about inssider