Mar 16 2007
iStumbling around the Neighborhood
My home wireless network was driving me crazy yesterday, so I decided to look around for some utilities that might help me diagnose the problem. I iStumbler, a wifi network detector for Mac OS X.
In addition to displaying all the wireless networks that your Mac can see, it also tells you what channel a given network is operating and percentages for that networks signal strength and noise. It allowed me to see at a glance what channels my neighbors’ myriad networks were operating at, and then I reset my own network’s channel to something that wasn’t being used. We’ll have to wait and see if that helps the network’s reliability, but it can’t hurt to try.
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