WiSpy + EaKiu == Geek.Love

The 2.4 GHz Spectrum

While I was shopping for my new laptop, I was listening to the PaulDotCom Security Weekly Podcast talk about the WiSpy.
I got one for my birthday and it's awesome. While I did have to wait a couple weeks for the Intel Macs to be supported, EaKiu is a wicked piece of software to work with a wicked little USB dongle.

The WiSpy is a 2.4 GHz spectrum analyzer which lets one see radios waves near that frequency.... Why 2.4Ghz? Because things like WiFi and cordless phones and microwave ovens work in that chunk of spectrum.

Average	Testing Sine-wave	WiFi Xfer	Shh... Quiet!
Changing a WAP Channel	Noisy WAP Channel Change	Logitech G7 Mouse Wiggling	At the Camp Fortune Xmitters

The WiSpy has been most useful for diagnosing flakey WiFi networks, the most interesting views are changing a WiFi network's channel (via the WAP.) It's cool to watch because the instant the WAP changes channel, all the associated devices start changing channels seeking out the access point again. Immediately a 'wall' of signal across the whole spectrum occurs, then the nodes reassociate.

I did find it curious to see how many 2.4 GHz signals I could detect up at the Camp Fortune transmission facility, that was rather unexpected. There's effectively no IP connectivity up there... until I realized Look Communications probably has some 2.4 GHz gear... I did fire up KisMAC for a minute, but no identifiable WiFi networks could be detected.

Here's my EaKiu snapshots gallery. There'll be more in there as time goes by.

_{... now if only I could use this to detect and attract single geek-girls...}