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“I built it because I was tired of carrying a separate app for every calculation I do on a job. Now it’s one app, 173 tools, on every device you own.” – Keith Parsons 173 tools in one app in the palm of your hands, that is pretty cool. As a wireless engineer there are…
This was part of my presentation during the WLPC 2026 in Phoenix towards the end. I have been working on this for a while and learning a lot during the process. Idea behind this is to be able to validate as many items from the checklists created by Keith Parsons located here and do it…
I have written couple of posts before on using Wireshark to troubleshoot Wi-Fi issues. First post I focused on was the Wireshark I/O Graphs. Since I discovered them, I have been using them and seen other people use them to troubleshoot network and Wi-Fi issues. I focused on analyzing and looking at the WLAN traffic…
I recently saw a post from Keith Parsons on Installing Orb on WLANPi and that sparked my curiosity. I have Ubuntu 25.04 running on one of my devices and wanted to see if I can install Orb on it. And it looks like Orb supports a whole bunch of devices. There is good documentation on…
I recently had a need to setup connectivity for full stack lab gear and VMs etc on the go. There are bunch of options available to do this and I needed to do this on a small budget. Some of the options I looked at are below: Starlink: Since the coverage desired is on the…
Previously I wrote a quick post on formatting MAC Addresses using Python and a csv file. In this post, I used Pandas and MS Excel (since this data ends up in Excel most of the time). In my previous post, I used the “join” function; but Keith Miller suggested I should look into the “macaddress”…
During my recent Wireless Adjuster II class I got introduced to Airtool Pi (new tool created by Adrian Granados). If you have been using Airtool or Airtool 2, you will certainly love this, cost is $14.99 and it is worth every penny. All you need is a WLANPi (Neo 2 is what I used; you…
Previously I discussed utilizing Wireshark I/O Graphs for troubleshooting. In this post I would like to share some thoughts on using the “WLAN Traffic” option for analyzing and troubleshooting purposes. Keep in mind that these tools will not necessarily exactly tell you what the issue is at times. But they are available as part of…
If you work in the IT I am sure you have used, seen and/or heard of Wireshark. It is an awesome free packet capture tool and/or to view captured data. Before I got heavily involved in Wireless, I extensively used it on the wired side of the things sometimes to troubleshoot and sometimes to prove…