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    Ashraf
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    Peter Blaise
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    No updated features and benefits since 2001 – no ability to map WiFi around our house space over a floor-plan JPG, like phone apps do – does not tether to and collect scans from a phone app.

    This can’t even show all info for all WiFi at once in a spreadsheet display for us to search, sort, and select by name, duration alive, signal strength, channel, security type, and so on.

    This doesn’t keep history, so when a WiFi drops out, there’s no record of it, so you can’t leave this on overnight or all week to see who’s doing what in the neighborhood.

    Fix all that, Abylonsoft, and come back with a new version for us to test and give you feedback on – please.

    Thanks, Ashraf, for letting us explore this and share.
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    Hank
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    As he says.. totally useless and archaic.

    Poor choice Sharewareonsale.

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    abylonsoft
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    @Peter Blaise: Thank you for your suggestions. We always like to take note of them.
    However, I would like to write the following 2 things about this:
    1) It is always a question what the software is designed for. We do not offer a complex evaluation of the local wifi situation. It is mainly intended to provide a fast connection to an open wifi network while on the road.
    2) Unlike Android, the corresponding Windows interface does not offer extensive possibilities to make a corresponding evaluation.

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    Peter Blaise
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    @Peter Blaise: Thank you for your suggestions. We always like to take note of them. However, I would like to write the following 2 things about this: 1) It is always a question what the software is designed for. We do not offer a complex evaluation of the local wifi situation. It is mainly intended to provide a fast connection to an open wifi network while on the road. 2) Unlike Android, the corresponding Windows interface does not offer extensive possibilities to make a corresponding evaluation.

    Thanks for your insight, Abylonsoft.

    I suppose that, yes, the name “WLAN Live Scanner” can be interpreted as “show me what’s live now”.

    The “and show nothing else” and “do nothing else” are what I’m reporting.

    You could present a spreadsheet-type display allowing us to search, sort, and select by any variable, such as security, signal strength, channel, and so on.

    You could keep a running history so we can see if even our own signal, let alone anyone else’s, is intermittent, especially when we are not there to watch it, overnight, when away, helping troubleshoot such questions as, does our building electricity flicker, is there a competitive Wi-Fi that comes on occasionally, and so on.

    And yes, you could integrate with signal strength records from a wandering and recording Wi-Fi phone app, especially such an app of your own design.

    I’m guessing that your program was designed from the tools outward, and we get what the programming tools were first thought of as being capable of providing.

    I’m suggesting designing from the end-user inward and meeting what makes sense to us.

    While you are at it, make your phone app able to take pictures of the Wi-Fi sticker and OCR optical character recognition it into usefulness for identifying our own Wi-Fi router – the makers make it such fine print, low contrast, with way too many numbers for us to get it accurate on the first try, and some folks are unaware of their own Wi-Fi SSID Service Set IDentifier, misremembering one from their prior service provider, or trying to connect to their office even when they are home.

    This apparently was released in 2001, and in the ensuing 10 years, miracles of programming sophistication have happened that best this program, and at least 5 generations of technology – and competitive programming – have landed.

    I have a 2001 car that still works just fine – and I know it’s value.

    I know the difference between it and my new 2022 car – wowza!

    How about a new version of Abylonsoft WLAN Live Scanner soon?

    Thanks for exploring this and sharing.

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    abylonsoft
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    @Peter Blaise:
    I agree with you, of course. The development continues. However, the WLAN scanner was created many years ago out of our own needs. However, it is only a by-product, which we unfortunately do not focus on that much and innovations are only implemented relatively sporadically. In the meantime, we have regrettably also had to discontinue the corresponding Android app. But what is not, can still become. Thank you very much for your suggestions. I will add them to our ToDo list and discuss them with the developer. But I can’t promise anything.

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