Netwrk 360

NETW360 Week 5 iLab: Discovering Access Points and Monitoring Signal Strength

Date: 11/22/2015

Student’s Name:

Professor’s Name:

Task 1: Discovering Access Points

1. Refer to the truncated list of detected access points from the middle section of the inSSIDer window shown below and answer the following questions.

a) Which CHANNEL is used by the “linksys” access point?

6

b) What’s the MAX RATE of this access point or network?

130

c) What SECURITY standard is used by this access point or network?

Open

d) What’s its NETWORK TYPE?

Infrastructure

2. Refer to the detailed information about the “linksys” access point shown below and answer the following questions.

a) How many Co-Channels are listed here?

15

b) What does this value mean?

6. Refer to the truncated list of detected access points from the middle section of the inSSIDer window shown below and answer the following questions.

a) Which CHANNEL(s) is (are) used by the “linksys” access point now?

4 and 8

b) What’s the MAX RATE of this access point or network?

270

c) What SECURITY standard is used by this access point or network?

WPA2-Personal

d) What’s its NETWORK TYPE?

Infrastructure

7. Refer to the detailed information about the “linksys” access point shown below and answer the following questions.

a) How many Co-Channels are listed here?

0

b) What’s the Overlapping value?

24

c) Explain what the Overlapping value means.

8. Refer to the graphical representation of the access points shown in the diagram below and answer the following questions:

a) What’s the transmission channel width (in MHz) of the “linksys” access point now?

2.4 GHz

b) If the “linksys” access point is meant to work in harmony with other access points in the same environment, what went wrong with the configuration changes?

Task 2: Monitoring Signal Strength

1. Refer to the detailed information about the...