RobertB-DC
Well-Known Member
I love the portable wifi hotspot feature in my Froyo phone, and I'm grateful that T-Mobile didn't decide to disable it. Obviously, I set it up to require a password to use, so I know who's on my connection. But I'd like to have a lot more info about what the phone is doing.
Every router I've had gives me access to a number of interesting settings, and my favorite is the DHCP Client Table. It shows me the internal IP address assigned to each device, so I can tell that my mom's PC, my laptop, the network printer, and some neighbor's iPhone are all sucking up the bandwidth my son wants, even NEEDS, to play COD-MW3 on his PS3.
I'd like to have that information for the wifi hotspot that my Android generates. That would let me set up an open access point if I want to help some poor soul access the 'net without giving him a password. I'd be able to watch and make sure the rest of the world doesn't decide to go along for a ride.
Or, I could see how many people will connect to a node named "VIRUSPORTAL" at the local Starbucks (and if I could allow/block by MAC address, I could see who curses when I switch them off). I learned most of what I know about networks by running Kismet, and that curiosity hasn't gone away. (Now that I'm rooted, I need to check out Pixie!)
Every router I've had gives me access to a number of interesting settings, and my favorite is the DHCP Client Table. It shows me the internal IP address assigned to each device, so I can tell that my mom's PC, my laptop, the network printer, and some neighbor's iPhone are all sucking up the bandwidth my son wants, even NEEDS, to play COD-MW3 on his PS3.
I'd like to have that information for the wifi hotspot that my Android generates. That would let me set up an open access point if I want to help some poor soul access the 'net without giving him a password. I'd be able to watch and make sure the rest of the world doesn't decide to go along for a ride.
Or, I could see how many people will connect to a node named "VIRUSPORTAL" at the local Starbucks (and if I could allow/block by MAC address, I could see who curses when I switch them off). I learned most of what I know about networks by running Kismet, and that curiosity hasn't gone away. (Now that I'm rooted, I need to check out Pixie!)