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Cognio's Spectrum Expert for WiFi 3.0: Page 4 of 4

We put a beta release of Cognio's Spectrum Expert for WiFi 3.0 through its paces at our Syracuse University Real-World Labs® and found the enhancements to be welcome additions to a product we already respected highly. After installing Spectrum Expert on a Lenovo ThinkPad T43, we used the product to track down a variety of interfering devices, including a cordless phone, Bluetooth Piconet and a production access point. Our only gripe is the 'Device Finder' feature's one-second update speed, which makes for slow building walkabouts--move a couple feet, wait for signal update and repeat the process.

All in all, Cognio's Spectrum Expert for WiFi 3.0 release is another step in the right direction for making WLAN spectrum analysis and interference detection a much more intuitive process.

Jameson Blandford is the lab manager at the Center for Emerging Network Technologies at Syracuse University. Write to him at [email protected].