{"id":657,"date":"2011-03-12T09:15:12","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T14:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=657"},"modified":"2011-03-12T22:47:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T03:47:11","slug":"657","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/657\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloudeight Freeware Pick 3\/12\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Xirrus Wi-Fi Inspector<\/strong>
\nWindows XP-SP2, Windows Vista, Windows 7 \t\t\t\t(32bit\/64bit)
\nXirrus Wi-Fi Inspector gives you a lot of \t\t\t\tinformation about your Wi-Fi connection – and about others \t\t\t\taround you
\n26.4 MB download file size<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I really like things that tell me stuff I don’t know – or show \t\t\t\tme stuff I know but I can’t see. Like if they offered a ghost \t\t\t\tdetector, I’d buy it or download it and buy it. But I don’t \t\t\t\tbelieve in ghosts, but if I ever saw one, I might believe in \t\t\t\tghosts. So if there is a ghost detector, please let me know \t\t\t\tbecause I’d like to believe in ghosts because if there are \t\t\t\tghosts, maybe I’d be a good one. I’d love to come back and haunt \t\t\t\tEB. No! EB! I don’t watch Ghosthunters.<\/p>\n

So when I downloaded and tried Xirrus Wi-Fi inspector I was \t\t\t\timmediately attracted to the Wi-Fi radar showing all the Wi-Fi \t\t\t\tnetworks around me. Funny thing, some of them disappear – these \t\t\t\tpeople actually shut down their routers when they’re not using \t\t\t\tthem. Amazing. My router is on 24\/7\/365. Yes it’s even running \t\t\t\ton Christmas Day. My network is secured with WPA2\/PSK and I’m \t\t\t\tstill waiting for a guy with the Pringles can to drive by my \t\t\t\thouse and try to connect to my network. I will have to admit \t\t\t\tthat before I saw the video of the Pringles’ can guy, my network \t\t\t\twas protect by rather weak security (WEP). But now Pringles’ \t\t\t\tcans scare me so I redid my security and now I’m WPA2\/PSK . I \t\t\t\tlove all those lovely acronyms. Don’t you?<\/p>\n

You wanna know don’t you? OK here you go:<\/p>\n

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“Short for Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 – Pre-Shared \t\t\t\tKey, and also called WPA or WPA2 Personal, it is a method of \t\t\t\tsecuring your network using WPA2 with the use of the optional \t\t\t\tPre-Shared Key (PSK) authentication, which was designed for home \t\t\t\tusers without an enterprise authentication server. <\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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To encrypt a network with WPA2-PSK you provide your router \t\t\t\tnot with an encryption key, but rather with a plain-English \t\t\t\tpassphrase between 8 and 63 characters long. Using a technology \t\t\t\tcalled TKIP (for Temporal Key Integrity Protocol), that \t\t\t\tpassphrase, along with the network SSID, is used to generate \t\t\t\tunique encryption keys for each wireless client. And those \t\t\t\tencryption keys are constantly changed…” (From WebOPedia \t\t\t\t http:\/\/www.webopedia.com\/TERM\/W\/WPA2_PSK.html<\/a> )<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t know about all that technical jargon, but now I don’t \t\t\t\tshake in fear when I see Pringles’ cans.<\/p>\n

OK getting back to our freeware pick:<\/p>\n

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Xirrus Wi-Fi inspector helps you manage and troubleshoot your \t\t\t\tWireless network. It also lets you see who else, within range, \t\t\t\thas a wireless network. Sometimes I’m nosy, OK? I’m not \t\t\t\tsnooping…I am just curious. But like I think I said before, \t\t\t\tthose who leave nearby turn their routers off when they’re not \t\t\t\tusing them so sometimes I feel lonely. That’s when I play with \t\t\t\tsome of the other tools available in Xirrus Wi-Fi Inspector… \t\t\t\tlike the speed test, the quality test and the connection tests. \t\t\t\tSometimes I get bored with the Wi-Fi radar and I go into \t\t\t\tsubmarine mode and change the radar to sonar – but I think I \t\t\t\tlike the sweep of the radar better than the sonar’s concentric \t\t\t\trings. But it’s nice I can switch.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"InfoAve<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

ENOUGH! I’m not going to give you every single detail of \t\t\t\tthis very interesting and powerful tool! Part of the fun of \t\t\t\tinstalling new software is playing around with it and finding \t\t\t\tout what else it can do. So install it and find out what else it \t\t\t\tcan do.<\/p>\n

Before I let you go download Xirrus Wi-Fi Inspector, we must let \t\t\t\tthe developer speak her\/his mind:<\/p>\n

“The Xirrus Wi-Fi Inspector is a powerful tool for managing and \t\t\t\ttroubleshooting the Wi-Fi on a Windows XP SP2 or later, Vista, \t\t\t\tor 7 laptop. Built in tests enable you to characterize the \t\t\t\tintegrity and performance of your Wi-Fi connection. Applications \t\t\t\tinclude:<\/p>\n

Searching for Wi-Fi networks
\nManaging and troubleshooting Wi-Fi connections
\nVerifying Wi-Fi coverage
\nLocating Wi-Fi devices
\nDetecting rogue APs…”<\/p>\n

If you have a wireless network, you’ll find this program very \t\t\t\tuseful and informative. And it makes a fun toy too. \t\t\t\tGrab The \t\t\t\tXirrus Wi-Fi Inspector from this link – and learn more about the \t\t\t\tradio waves that swaddle you<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Xirrus Wi-Fi Inspector Windows XP-SP2, Windows Vista, Windows 7 (32bit\/64bit) Xirrus Wi-Fi Inspector gives you a lot of information about your Wi-Fi connection – and about others around you 26.4 MB download file size I really like things that tell me stuff I don’t know – or show me stuff I know but I can’t see. Like if\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[280,467,466,465,469,470,464,463,468,462,162,471],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions\/660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}