From the course: Wireless Networking: Advanced Troubleshooting

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Wireless troubleshooting tools

Wireless troubleshooting tools

- [Narrator] There are many different tools available to troubleshoot wifi and other wireless issues. Wifi is usually going to be the result of wireless access in an internal location such as inside a building, in an airport or in a home. But wireless would be the umbrella term that includes wifi. Wireless also includes things like cellular connections to your phone, and there are many different tools available for both different types of troubleshooting and some work better than others. They're all basically trying to do the same thing however, they're trying to search for interference. Interference and connecting your client to say the access point in a wifi location and then sending data back and forth from your device through the access point and out to the internet, or to connect to say, a local resource like a file and print server. analyzers are one of those tools you can use to troubleshoot wireless connections. Analyzers are typically software that's installed on a PC. You…

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