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How Do You Locate That Access Point?
parp asks: "As an IT Manager I'm concerned about unauthorized Access Points being installed, or users who setup wireless computer to computer networks. How do you find the exact location of these devices? I've tried walking around the office with a laptop watching the signal, but the signal monitors that are included with most network drivers are very limited. The signal could be upstairs, downstairs or right around the corner, but I can't find it. Results of web searches I've done just tell you how to find a signal (wardrive), not the source. I'd be interested in any software or hardware device that can locate the device within a few feet."
First, start on a floor you know has access to this access point. Then, get in the elevator and hit the top floor. Note what floor you get disconnected on. Do the same going down, and average those numbers together and you have the floor it's on.
Once you are there, gather everyone around, and tell them that you know one of them has a wireless access point around. The first person to turn around and hurry away sneakily is your guy. Pull out your gun and shoot him in the back. Find his desk and everywhere he goes, and you'll eventually find the access point. Problem solved.
Or were you wanting to do this legally? Then I would just get them in a headlock and "nugey" them until they tell you where it is.
I tried using a directional antenna and kept finding these.
No, I don't trust in god. He'll have to pay up front, like everybody else.
Simple! You simply log into the access point and type 'eject' at the command prompt. Then look for the Access Point with the CD-Tray open...
:)
Hey, if it works for a maze of Linux machines
But in all hoestly, you probably want a directional antenna as the other posters are suggesting. However, I suggest you get 2-3 volunteers, each with their own directional antenna. It will be easier to triangulate the signal if you have 3 folks coming in from 3 different angles.
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
or, more likely, pull wires until your employment stops which wont be long in many companies if you pull that kind of trick.
Bush and Blair ate my sig!
Just ask Frink:
"I have captured the signal and am presently triangulating the vectors and compressing the data down in order to express it as a function of my hand... They're over there!"
Mebbe it's just because it was written by Marketing Droids, but this doesn't give me much confidence:
I've never known anything to radiate in a square before...
Why not announce an outage for your company's WiFi, then it would be much easier to figure out where the other access points are.
it's a sig, wtf?
They can train dogs to find bodies, drugs, people, people's cancer.
Next..the amazing WAP smelling dog.
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