Fri, 01/09/2009 - 00:04
Submitted by Work Permit

Excuse the newbie question, but does inSSIDer detect cloaked AP's (ie access points which don't transmit a beacon)? Since inSSIDer uses windows wifi API, I assume it doesn't, but several posts on the web seem to indicate that it does.

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Cloaked APs do transmit a

brian's picture
Fri, 01/09/2009 - 10:56
brian

Cloaked APs do transmit a beacon, but the beacon does not contain the SSID of the AP.  InSSIDer indicates cloaked APs SSID as "unknown".

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Trent's picture
Fri, 01/09/2009 - 17:53
Trent

Hi!  Welcome to the forum!  InSSIDer will show the cloaked SSID as "unknown."  So you'll know what channel it is on, and how strong the signal is.

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