I find that with many open/public wifi hotspots, i am not able to connect and get mysterious "Web: Gateway not found" message. (sometimes if i keep trying i get a connection - other times i can't but a laptop can.)
I'd like to debug the wifi/wlan connections with my e61. e.g.
* did the DHCP server give me an IP address?
* can i ping an IP address? (e.g. 192.168.1.1)
* is DNS/nslookup working?
* are any ports firewalled?
Does anyone know of a tool or ways to view this type of WLAN info?
:jason
Add:
Display of Signal Strength, Data Rate and Retry Rate
SSID & BSSID
- that would give us a nice tool for occastional site surveys/validation of coverage.
Regards
Michael
jmoore wrote:I find that with many open/public wifi hotspots, i am not able to connect and get mysterious "Web: Gateway not found" message. (sometimes if i keep trying i get a connection - other times i can't but a laptop can.)
Have you tried to connect using Opera Mobile instead of the built-in Web browser? I have found that, very often, Opera Mobile would connect just fine when the built-in browser would just complain about some gateway not found.
elp wrote:Have you tried to connect using Opera Mobile instead of the built-in Web browser? I have found that, very often, Opera Mobile would connect just fine when the built-in browser would just complain about some gateway not found.
I have noticed that. 😉 but, i didn't think much of it since the networking stuff is in the OS not the browser. Sometimes just trying things over and over seems to get a proper wifi connection, so i assume that's why it looks like opera works when the default web browser doesn't.
I know there is the expensive "PsiLoc HotSpot Finder" app - but i don't know if it helps debugging wifi/wlan connection problems.
:jason
jmoore wrote:I have noticed that. 😉 but, i didn't think much of it since the networking stuff is in the OS not the browser. Sometimes just trying things over and over seems to get a proper wifi connection, so i assume that's why it looks like opera works when the default web browser doesn't.
I thought that it only was an OS problem too but i used to have endless problems with wifi using the built-in web browser and since i've switched to Opera Mobile, i haven't had any. Now it might of course be just a coincidence and have nothing to do with the way Opera handles the network connection.
jmoore wrote:
I know there is the expensive "PsiLoc HotSpot Finder" app - but i don't know if it helps debugging wifi/wlan connection problems.
There was a trial version installed on the E61 (expired now) and i've tried it a few times but really couldn't find out what this app was all about. As far as i could see, it would only display the list of all the wireless networks in range and that's it. It wouldn't even tell you whether the network was open or secure. You could then select one of the found network and choose Connect (you had to use the menu for that, simply pressing the OK key didn't even work) and it would create an access point to it and attempt to connect. But since it didn't tell you whether a network was secured or not, you actually had to try each and every one of the found network in turn only to find out after 5 minutes of trying that they were all secured. Completely useless. Plus you ended up with dozens of useless access points in your access points list (the thing wouldn't even delete them automatically when it failed to connect). I don't remember that it displayed any kind of useful information about the found networks or the current connection.
If anybody has an idea of what this application is supposed to be used for, please let us know because i'm really puzzled here and given that it's one of the most expensive Symbian application on the market it must have some freaking great feature that I have completely overlooked.
Hilarious! ok, forget that psiloc app.
i just found out about the nokia port of python to the e61. (pys60) This is sweet! I'm still figuring out the details (e.g. getting a text editor on the phone to write and run scripts...) but it seems to have access to lots of internals. plus you can create a socket and pump out debug/error messages...
http://wiki.opensource.nokia.com/projects/PyS60_applications
i'll let you know if i come up with anything.