Friday, August 26, 2011

How to use Cisco Spectrum Expert (or at least how I use it)

I was chatting with @the_wifi_guy the other day and he asked me if I had any videos on how to use the Cisco Spectrum Expert application. I found an ancient video I recorded back in 2008 when it was called AirMagnet Spectrum Analyzer. I edited out the customer specific information and posted it to YouTube. The video quality was bad and I barely covered the ins and outs of the application but I thought other people might get some use out of it.

Today I finally got around to making a video on how I use the Cisco Spectrum Expert application to find sources of interference, and how to tweak the settings in the application. I had to break the video into two parts since it ran 30 minutes long (!).





7 comments:

  1. Hi expert, i'm going to buy cisco spectrum expert. but what my problem is I can not buy any laptop with cardbus slot on the market.
    I saw you work with an adapter, is it work fine? and what is the windows version in your laptop? I read the doc, cisco spectrum only support 32bit OS. I afraid I have to downgrade the OS from 64 bit to 32bit.

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  2. The adapter I have works fine, and I'm running the 32bit version of Windows 7.

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  3. Hi Jennifer,

    Would you be able to post your capture files so I can also have a look at it?

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  4. Hi Jennifer,

    Would you be able to post the ccp files so I can have a look myself?

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  5. Hi Jennifer,

    May I ask which adapter you use? I can't seem to find one out there.

    Thanks

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  6. This is the Addonics adapter I use with the Cisco SpectrumExpert card. I run Win7 32bit.

    http://www.addonics.com/products/host_controller/adexc34cb.asp

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  7. I uploaded a few of the *.ccf files into this folder:
    http://www.mediafire.com/?1w78yfdf1a5pd

    Let me know if there is another capture you'd like to see.

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