Alf Watt, developer of iStumbler and also formerly of Apple's Wi-Fi group, joins John and Dave today to answer all of your (and their!) Wi-Fi concerns. Join these three geeks to absorb all the Wi-Fi knowledge you can. Download, press play and enjoy!
MGG 509: WiFi Answers with Wi-Fi Guru Alf Watt of iStumbler
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Stuff mentioned:
- Alf Watt on Twitter (1:21)
- iStumbler (2:03)
- The Fruit Company (2:26)
- Ruckus Wireless (2:33)
- Alf Watt Interviewed at WWDC 2013 (3:30)
- Bluetooth LE (5:20)
- (The Wi-Fire is no longer available and the links are blocked)
- BearExtender Turbo (9:27)
- Introduction to I/O Kit Fundamentals (10:10)
- iStumbler Bug/Feature reporter/requester
- Buffalo Dual-Core, 802.11ac, DD-WRT router
- MoCA
- 60 GHz WirelessHD
- Cognitive Radio Technologies
- Dipole Antenna
- Planar Array
- NetSpot (40:26)
- Chapter 4. Beamforming in 802.11ac
- Slau
- Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI)
- Boosting wifi signal
- Control Plane
- Apple Invents Intelligent Location-Based Security for Home & CarPlay
- Estimating the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow
- Dynamic Frequency Selection Part 3: The Channel Dilemma
- NetUse Traffic Monitor
- Eye P.A.
- The Mac Geek Gab iPhone app
- IEEE 802.11d-2001 (Additional Regulatory Domains)
- iStumbler on Facebook
- 4 Wi-Fi Tips from Former Apple Wi-Fi Engineer
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Comments
Intersting thing on SNMP and Airport hardware.
I ran this “snmpwalk -v 2c -c public -O e 192.168.1.11” on my Airport Express (latest hardware) and a bunch of goodies spewed out. So although the latest Airport Utility does not support SNMP it’s all in the hardware it seems.
Looks like SNMP is off on my express but here is a snippet of output.
SNMPv2-MIB::snmpInPkts.0 = Counter32: 523
SNMPv2-MIB::snmpOutPkts.0 = Counter32: 523
SNMPv2-MIB::snmpInBadVersions.0 = Counter32: 0
SNMPv2-MIB::snmpInBadCommunityNames.0 = Counter32: 0
SNMPv2-MIB::snmpInBadCommunityUses.0 = Counter32: 0
SNMPv2-MIB::snmpInASNParseErrs.0 = Counter32: 0
SNMPv2-MIB::snmpInTooBigs.0 = Counter32: 0
SNMPv2-MIB::snmpInNoSuchNames.0 = Counter32: 0
SNMPv2-MIB::snmpInBadValues.0 = Counter32: 0
SNMPv2-MIB::snmpInReadOnlys.0 = Counter32: 0
SNMPv2-MIB::snmpInGenErrs.0 = Counter32: 0
SNMPv2-MIB::snmpInTotalReqVars.0 = Counter32: 533
SNMPv2-MIB::snmpInTotalSetVars.0 = Counter32: 0
SNMPv2-MIB::snmpInGetRequests.0 = Counter32: 0
SNMPv2-MIB::snmpInGetNexts.0 = Counter32: 537
SNMPv2-MIB::snmpInSetRequests.0 = Counter32: 0
SNMPv2-MIB::snmpInGetResponses.0 = Counter32: 0
SNMPv2-MIB::snmpInTraps.0 = Counter32: 0
SNMPv2-MIB::snmpOutTooBigs.0 = Counter32: 0
SNMPv2-MIB::snmpOutNoSuchNames.0 = Counter32: 0
SNMPv2-MIB::snmpOutBadValues.0 = Counter32: 0
SNMPv2-MIB::snmpOutGenErrs.0 = Counter32: 0
SNMPv2-MIB::snmpOutGetRequests.0 = Counter32: 0
SNMPv2-MIB::snmpOutGetNexts.0 = Counter32: 0
SNMPv2-MIB::snmpOutSetRequests.0 = Counter32: 0
SNMPv2-MIB::snmpOutGetResponses.0 = Counter32: 547
SNMPv2-MIB::snmpOutTraps.0 = Counter32: 0
SNMPv2-MIB::snmpEnableAuthenTraps.0 = INTEGER: 2
SNMPv2-MIB::snmpSilentDrops.0 = Counter32: 0
SNMPv2-MIB::snmpProxyDrops.0 = Counter32: 0
re above comment, actually I don’t know what all the output means. Does anyone want to chime in?
I could not resist this. Installing an older version of Airport Utility to get all the features back that version 6 wiped out.
You can do this with brew and wine. Brilliant fun hack.
http://www.tavenier.org/older-airport-utility-on-mac-os-x-mavericks/
As an FYI, Airport Utility exe running on Wine only sees my 2nd gen Airport Extreme. Hmm, maybe I just a newer version of Airport Utility for Windows that can see my new express. Anyway, cool stuff!
Alex, the SNMP output is showing individual ‘MIB’ entries and their types.
Taking one example:
SNMPv2-MIB::snmpInPkts.0 = Counter32: 523
‘SNMPv2-MIB’ we’re talking SNMP v2
‘snmpInPkts.0’ packets received by the primary interface
‘Counter32’ it’s a 32 bit counter value (which should always increase)
‘523’ is the number of packets
Regarding the problem of Slau. You are right, with ControlPlane (I like that program) and some scripting you can indeed switch to the correct access point. If ControlePlane determined the location it can run a shell script with the following command in it:
networksetup -setairportnetwork en0 WIFI_SSID WIFI_PASSWORD
Small correction, I think networksetup -setairportnetwork en0 WIFI_SSID is enough, because the password of his access point is already in the keychain.
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