Magical Musings of WiFi

I found a nice tidbit today within dialer codes of Android phones. This will help provide the BSSID, RSSI, TX and RX Rates and other helpful information when doing client testing. So we all know that client testing on Android has been broken since Android Pie ( https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/79906367#comment15 ) and Google says they are not looking to fix it as it's a feature for battery savings.  What does that mean?  All your favorite wifi scanning apps are essentially broken or just too slow to really get any usable data.  Aside from some PING applications - what else can you do? Well, I found it and here it is: Go to your dialer app and type in  *#*#4636#*#* You'll first see Go to Wi-Fi Information And then go to Wi-Fi status I have found that the refresh rate for the RSSI is much faster than any of the programs like Analyzer can provide as well as the TX and RX rates and you can even see the BSSID. Hope th...

If you are reading this - I'm going to assume you are familiar with two things. 1. How the CAPWAP Process Works.  If not read: http://www.revolutionwifi.net/revolutionwifi/2010/11/capwap-controller-discovery-process_23.html 2. How bad of an idea it is to assign static IP addresses to APs on your Cisco WLC network. If not read: Just don't. So I was brought onto a call.  There are migrations going on where the network consists of APs in a large spread out geography and was designed utilizing Flexconnect.  These APs are moving from one controller to another as well as a redesigned address space. You'd think - Well, this won't be so bad with CAPWAP and DHCP.  You are right butttttt everyone forgot to run on the WLC config ap static-ip delete (ap name or all) or couldn't do this because they needed the AP to the last minute before the cut-over.  You could also accomplish this in the GUI. What happens when a cut-over has been fully completed ...