2WIRE151 Is?

[OldGuy]

Neighbor has a router that scans as 2Wire151. What router is that?

I want to buy one since it is so powerful it is just as "loud" as the
one in my home.

Is there some way to scan it and get the router model?

I do not want access. I just to know what it is.

 

[VanguardLH]

Neighbor has a router that scans as 2Wire151. What router is that?
I want to buy one since it is so powerful it is just as "loud" as the
one in my home.

That's the name the owner gave to his router. Not everyone leaves
settings at the factory defaults (especially the password).

You actually used an RF meter to gauge signal strength of the routers
(http://www.sperdirect.com/images_products/3-axis-rf-meter-906lar.jpg)?
Make sure it covers the routers' frequency range. Have you walked
around your home checking where are the strongest signal areas for your
own router while wiggling around its antenna(s)?

How do you know it is his router that you are somehow inacurrately
measuring? Maybe it's an AP (access point) or his wifi PC on the side
of his home closest to you.

This neighbor isn't a friendly neighbor that you could just ask him
which brand and model of router that he has and what is his network
setup regarding wireless nodes and which is closest to you?

 

[OldGuy]

VanguardLH submitted this idea :

That's the name the owner gave to his router. Not everyone leaves
settings at the factory defaults (especially the password).

You actually used an RF meter to gauge signal strength of the routers
(http://www.sperdirect.com/images_products/3-axis-rf-meter-906lar.jpg)?
Make sure it covers the routers' frequency range. Have you walked
around your home checking where are the strongest signal areas for your
own router while wiggling around its antenna(s)?

How do you know it is his router that you are somehow inacurrately
measuring? Maybe it's an AP (access point) or his wifi PC on the side
of his home closest to you.

This neighbor isn't a friendly neighbor that you could just ask him
which brand and model of router that he has and what is his network
setup regarding wireless nodes and which is closest to you?

i am 8 feet from my wifi router.
my meter reads out in db and as fairly accurate.

at&t uses that 2wirexxx default all over town as i just found out.
so it is probably an at&t router since my neighbor host multiple
servers that probably host porn etc or maybe not.
but you should see all the at&t cables going into the house.
at&t was just there today probably adding more lines.
my router is supposed to be high power but neighbors seems to be at
least double power output.

 

[Paul in Houston TX]

Neighbor has a router that scans as 2Wire151. What router is that?

I want to buy one since it is so powerful it is just as "loud" as the
one in my home.

Is there some way to scan it and get the router model?

I do not want access. I just to know what it is.

That's an ATT wifi router. Built in antennas.
One DSL version is 2701HG-B. I have two flakey ones here.
100 mbit. They last almost 3 years before burning out.
You can get used ones from E-Bay real cheap.
A neighborhood scan shows 5 with original ID's nearby.
I assume that you have ATT DSL service.

 

[VanguardLH]

VanguardLH submitted this idea :

i am 8 feet from my wifi router.
my meter reads out in db and as fairly accurate.

at&t uses that 2wirexxx default all over town as i just found out.
so it is probably an at&t router since my neighbor host multiple
servers that probably host porn etc or maybe not.
but you should see all the at&t cables going into the house.
at&t was just there today probably adding more lines.
my router is supposed to be high power but neighbors seems to be at
least double power output.

Are those cable or telephone wires?

If new telephone wires, they may be to replace defective ones (e.g.,
squirrel chewing, wire breakage, high resistance). Often the techs
don't bother fixing a problem when they can isolate it to the line and
instead just run another. Also, when they add more phone numbers, they
may need to add another line. When we had a 2nd line added, they had to
run another line because the secondary wires in the old line tested as
bad. I quit using that number so the new line went dead. Years later
the old line had problems (looks like the squirrels chewed at it) so
they simply moved the inside wiring from the old line to the new line.
They didn't bother taking down the old line. Maybe your neighbor added
more telephone numbers and needed more lines, or the old lines tested as
bad so they ran a new line but left the old line dangling from pole to
house.

How do you know what RF source your meter is measuring? I'm assuming
you have an RF meter and are not referring to some measurement shown in
the router's config pages. How do you now that you're not measuring his
ham radio's output versus his wifi router? Some (probably most) RF
meters just show the sum total of all RF sources that together induce a
tiny voltage or current, so the meter only shows you mV/m, uA/m, uW/m2,
or uW/cm2. They don't let you choose a narrow frequency range. Does
your RF meter permit selection of frequencies or ranges of them? Wifi
uses 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz. There is the 802.11ad that uses 60 GHz but I
haven't run across any of those yet.

Your neighbor might be a ham radio operator and you're measuring that
(plus every other RF source in the area). How do you know WHAT you are
measuring with that RF meter? You might be measuring the sum total of
his computers with wifi NICs, wifi APs, wifi printers, and wifi whatever
along with your own RF sources.

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

VanguardLH submitted this idea :

Though in this case, Paul in Houston has recognised what it is, unless
there's double-bluff going on.

What's wrong with the bars indicator in Windows? OK, it may not be as
accurate or linear or have the dynamic range of a meter, but in fact for
this purpose it's at least as useful.
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That assumes you know which neighbour it is!
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