Help! - Do you more your Wireless Access Point/Router?

[Mnet_Gaming]

Hey guys,

As a part of my final year dissertation I'm trying to guesstimate how often someone moves their wireless access point/router.

If this sounds like an odd question, I'll point you towards SkyHook. Basically, the signal broadcast from your AP can be related to an actual position. When someone detects that signal, you can estimate they are "likely" in that area. You essentually end up with a positioning system of sorts :)

So, if you can spare 10 seconds to click /\. I'd really appreciate it :)


[Wops, I'm sure you dont "more" your access point that often :P]

..Seriously not a good day for me, I posted in the wrong forum! Dammit

[jb2cool]

Where is the option for "I plug it in and then just leave it well alone".

Also, looking on their site they say;

1. Automated Self-Healing Network Each Wi-Fi location transaction starts with a scan for nearby access points. The resulting access point information is then compared against the central reference network. Known access points (those already in the reference network) are used to calculate the location of the device.
Any access point that is either not in the database or was previously associated with a different geographic location is automatically identified and its current position entered into the database. In this manner, XPS automatically fixes and expands the Wi-Fi reference network as it is being used.

So it shouldn't really matter too much if you move your AP. Even if you do move it, your house is probably quite small so you won't really have too much of an effect.
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[Mnet_Gaming]

[Snip]

Haha, that's the hidden option, you've gotta find it ;)... My theory is you're "eventually" going to move it, maybe to the bin... So 2~ years should suffice.


As far as moving it around a building, my system is a lot more precise that than. Around 3 meters, it's designed to be used in a building (or outside). And in in theory, what's to stop you moving?


...side note: haven't seen you in a while J2!

[jb2cool]

Yeah, been out of the loop for a couple of years. Back now though
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[russ18uk]

I don't move my AP at all, either, just stays in a central position in the house in a wardrobe.

[Mnet_Gaming]

Yeah, been out of the loop for a couple of years. Back now though

It's funny how much everything has changed, I'm sure MO used to have hundreds and hundreds of online browsers at its peak.


Look, it's russ. Let's have a reunion :P

[xtrmntr]

I have moved my AP 3 times in the last 8 years, and that was because I was moving home.

[mrbungle]

I think most people wouldn't ever move it. But then again when people have a reshuffle or they redecorate they can get moved, mine moved a whole 3 meters to the other end of my office 2 months ago.

Was so exciting i could barely control myself [thumbup]

[Lord_Micron]

I would say never... Up until now, one unit with the right antenna(s) has always sufficed. For the house we've been looking to buy, I was gonna put one on each floor and another out in the garage in a combined wireless mesh. Reason being is that we are only going to have 1-2 wired phones (by wired I mean VoIP) in the house, and the rest are wireless VoIP. Cisco for WAPs, Air Controller, Call Manager and Phones... AT&T for SIP service.

[Kpt420]

Mine doesn't move. There is a closet downstairs where all the voice/data/CATV cabling terminates, its in there.