 | Oct 4 2009 |
THE X Broken with 10.6. Developer, it would be great if you could find a fix. :)
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| Sep 4 2009 |
APEMAN Stopped working with 10.6
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 | Feb 17 2009 |
ROBERTCOOGAN Very handy, very easy to use. Beats AirRadar hands-down. I have used it for quite a while (in conjunction with my WiFire), and it is excellent at determining the accessibility of local signals.
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| Oct 12 2008 |
NOHAWK Has anyone yet found the fix for the accumulation of vast numbers of error messages in /var/log/system.log apparently due to an outdated format being used in a plist file associated with iStumbler when running on a macbook (Leopard)? macbook-pro iStumbler[14765]: exception getting radio info: XML parser error:\n Unexpected character a at line 1\nOld-style plist parser error:\n Unexpected ';' or '=' after key at line 1
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 | Feb 24 2008 |
SATCOMER Just tried and it works on my Mac Book Pro. It even finds hidden sites.
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| Nov 19 2006 |
IVANOVITCH Doesn't work with latest MacBook Pro (Core 2 Duo). I suspect that it needs updating to deal with new 802.11n cards that have been put in these machines.
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| Apr 10 2007 |
MBHOCKEY works fine on my C2D MacBook.
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| Oct 19 2006 |
Here's the obligatory feature request: Provide a way to sort by signal strength--maybe just by clicking on the signal strength column. Would also be nice if you could filter for "only open" networks. I know, I know, it's not actually signal strength, but throughput, no need to flame me.
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| Nov 26 2005 |
ANONYMOUS works fine for me. 10.4.3
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| Aug 29 2005 |
Beige G4 600 mHz running OS 10.3.9 :-) 0.94 works without problems
Console provides the following: dyld: /Applications/Utilities/iStumbler 0.95.app/Contents/MacOS/iStumbler can't open library: /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib (No such file or directory, errno = 2) Do you find this helpful?
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| Aug 3 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Would not launch
Too many open wireless nodes in my hood to count
v 0.94 works fine :-)
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 | Aug 6 2005 |
ALF WATT Please send bug reports to help@istumbler.net, we're always happy to help track down a crashing bug! iStumbler does require Mac OS 10.3.9 or better because it is a universal binary.
(Version 0.95) | |
| Jul 7 2005 |
MICHAEL SCOTT Tiger 10.4.1 has caused me problems when moving form one wireless network to another, I have been unable to connect to my wireless network at home, iStumbler allowed me to connect and be up and running in seconds.
(Version 0.94) | |
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| Jun 7 2005 |
ANONYMOUS under osx 10.4.1, the application icon does not appear properly in the finder. other than that, great.
(Version 0.94) | |
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| Jun 4 2005 |
SMOKEONIT crashes in tiger when using my bluetooth belkin gps.hopefully will get fixed in the next update?
(Version 0.93) | |
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| Jun 7 2005 |
ALF WATT Please send bug reports to help@istumbler.net, we're happy to help out! Bluetooth GPS support is definatly not the most stable portion of iStumbler. I only have an Alps Bluetooth GPS to test with so it's impossable to verify what's happening with the Belkin gear. Upgrading to Tiger has made most of these issues easter to deal with, at least for me.
(Version 0.94) | |
| Apr 20 2005 |
KARL BROWN great application keep it up
(Version 0.93) | |
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| Apr 11 2005 |
DANGEROUSDAVE Need to force quit this version, just as was pointed out by others.
(Version 0.92) | |
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| Mar 28 2005 |
MATT Just got V.92, have to force quit every time. Will go back to V.91 for now. Hope next update solves that problem.
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| Mar 28 2005 |
MATT After reading another review I found that if you go to GET INFO and then choose PLUGINS and get rid of the gps plugin, it works fine.
(Version 0.92) | |
| Mar 21 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Version .92 works, but I have to force quit. Went back to version .91 and all is well.
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| Mar 21 2005 |
ANONYMOUS It's a bug with the GPS plug-in. Disable the GPS plug-in in Get Info in Finder.
(Version 0.92) | |
| Mar 4 2005 |
RYAN KisMac probably has a better featureset, but iStumbler is certainly much easier to use. If you're new to wireless, start here.
(Version 0.91) | |
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| Feb 21 2005 |
ANONYMOUS "Next (dumb?) question: "Why would anyone need wireless networking? Can't you just, like, plug it in the wall?" Please tell me this is sarcasm... right?
(Version 0.91) | |
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| Jan 31 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Nice, effective and useful program. However, there are others that not only find networks for you but can also help you crack the encryption. Haven't tried it, but don't tell me your network is secure. It's a joke.
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| Feb 19 2005 |
ANONYMOUS It is possible to have a secure wireless network. WEP encryption is a joke. WPA encryption is not a joke, it is the real deal. If you are using WEP instead of WPA, you are the joke. The only known WPA crack (unless you can list some others) is a dictionary attack, meaning the only known WPA weakness is due to the user, not the encryption, and can be addressed by not using an obvious password, which should be your standard procedure anyway.
(Version 0.91) | |
| Jan 25 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Very useful if you want to check lots of APs at the same time, and confirm that you haven't got a channel clash or got an unprotected AP. Dell APs (IME) in particular are prone to forgetting their settings. Yes, other users, you can use it to find unprotected APs and leech, but you can use a chain saw to cut an arm off or to cut down a dangerous tree before it falls on a child and kills them. Its not the tool thats dangerous its the person using it.
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| Jan 26 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Good point about the chainsaw :) | |
| Feb 28 2005 |
ANON you are absolutely correct... please stay away from chainsaws though...
(Version 0.91) | |
| Jan 25 2005 |
ANONYMOUS The fact that this is called iStumbler explains what this app is useful for. For stumbling onto unencrypted, insecure wireless networks that you can leech off of. I'm sure it does however have other, more peer friendly uses too. Though perhaps the developer can elighten us with those ;) Perhaps in environments where there are alot of overlapping wireless networks and you want to connect to a specific one... Maybe. I had an unwanted intruder on my network after i reset my router and forgot to secure it. Though now I'd like to see em try and free load off me... | |
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| Jan 25 2005 |
TNH It's useful for checking out your own network. Any tool that can be used for 'stumbling/wc' can also be used for auditing your own network. This app works find and no, it's not all built into your OS. If you want something w/ more kick then you use kismac, but for the basics this is it and it does the trick.
(Version 0.90) | |
| Jan 25 2005 |
ANONYMOUS "...networks that you can leech off of." Yeah, I have done that. Did not feel the slightest twinge of guilt doing so. Situation: Away from my aDSL connection, visiting my family in Kansas City, MO... Staying at my mother's house, the next-door neighbor had an insecure (read: clueless Windows user) wireless net and I scrambled right onto it. Moral: Leave your front door open and you can expect all sorts of things to happen...
(Version 0.90) | |
| Feb 7 2005 |
ANONYMOUS "the next-door neighbor had an insecure (read: clueless Windows user) wireless net" If that's the definition of a clueless user, there are many clueless Mac users as well. Remember, Mac users like to brag about Mac things being easy to use, and there's nothing easier than plugging in your access point and NOT configuring security.
(Version 0.90) | |
| Feb 28 2005 |
ANON no WEP, no hidden SSID, no excuses... ignorance isn't an excuse, forgetting isn't an excuse. i'm sure, whatever device the owner is using came with instructions on how to secure it. and i'm doing it right now...
(Version 0.91) | |
| Jan 24 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Why would you need this?
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| Jan 24 2005 |
ANONYMOUS It's very useful for determining which node of your distributed wireless network you are connected to. Or if the neighbor's network is interfering with you.
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| Jan 25 2005 |
RICH To work out who has an unauthorised wireless network on our premises. That's a pretty good reason. Next (dumb?) question: "Why would anyone need wireless networking? Can't you just, like, plug it in the wall?"
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| Feb 7 2005 |
ANONYMOUS I used it for a useful reason today. I checked the neighbors' channels (without joining their networks). Sure enough, both are running channel 6. So I steered mine to channel 1 to avoid interference.
(Version 0.90) | |
| Feb 27 2005 |
ANONYMOUS For war driving, Finding unprotected networks and leeching.
(Version 0.91) | |
| Jan 24 2005 |
ANONYMOUS uh.. aren't all of these features built into OSX?
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| Jan 24 2005 |
ANONYMOUS No problems here, works fine.
(Version 0.90) | |
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| Jul 7 2004 |
ALF WATT Upgrading users may have problems with the AirPort plugin showing no data. You can either re-download the current version (87a) or remove your iStumbler preferences file which is located in your home directory: ~/Library/Preferences/net.istumbler.plist I'm very sorry for the hassle, future version of iStumbler will have versions in the bundle id's and will not attempt to share preferences between versions.
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| Jul 7 2004 |
M G The last version worked, albeit primitively and non-intuitively; however this version displays NOTHING while the log indicates that it is at the least an active appl'.
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| Jul 6 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Checked out that nexus9.org, any site offering trojans and other malicious stuff I wouldnt even trust to put any of their stuff on my system.
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| Jul 6 2004 |
ANONYMOUS www.nexus9.org Airstumbler is better
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| Sep 19 2004 |
ANONYMOUS MacStumbler is better.
(Version 0.89) | |
| Oct 20 2004 |
ANONYMOUS good argument
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| Apr 23 2004 |
HXRLY Useful, stable, simple. A must have for me.
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| Apr 23 2004 |
JEDIK Just curious: what happened to the old, good looking, 3D icon? :)
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| Apr 23 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Great app, but was there really a good reason to drop 10.2.x support? There are a lot of Wallstreet G3 PBs out there, and Apple doesn't support installing 10.3 on them. And some might be prefer to avoid the upgrade cost of 10.3 anyway. Yes, I do know that some have been able to install 10.3 via XPostFacto.
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| May 13 2004 |
ALF WATT How do you intend to use an AirPort card with a Wallstreet PowerBook? Do you have a Buffalo G-Card or some compatable PC Card adapert? For the record I dropped 10.2 support to take advantage of some new feature in Obejctive-C and the AppKit, it would be difficult for me to support the current features of iStumbler under older versions of Mac OS.
(Version 0.86) | |
| Mar 24 2005 |
ANONYMOUS A while back dealmac was showing sources for wireless cards for about $30 that used the Broadcom chipset making them compatible with Apple's Airport software. It's amazing just how much one can do in an old Wallstreet. An Orinoco/Prism/Wavelan card can be run in one slot with the sourceforge driver while simultaneously using the Airport compatible card in the other. That allowed net access from one source on one card while streaming from iTunes to Airport Express over the other. A separate antenna was used on one card so the two wouldn't be clobbering each other's receivers so much. I'm not using 10.2.x, so I don't actually need support for it. Thanks for the explanation of why it wasn't supported.
(Version 0.92) | |
| Nov 22 2003 |
SNIFF BUT NO COLD Great Little App! I'd like to see iStumbler able to work with an Orinoco card (which the SourceForge Wireless driver adds support for). Airport cards work okay, but the Orinoco has a more sensitive receive, and allows supports an external directional antenna offering vastly greater range and needed directivity to avoid closer nets on the same channel which use common default names. To stumble with the Orinoco, Kismac seems the only option. It is quite powerful (can even show clients on nets), but it loads its own driver and won't allow using other net apps while it is going.
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| Jan 8 2004 |
ALF WATT Oronico suport will be offered when Rob updates the wireless driver code to support network scanning. I've been tracking his work on it for some time and hopefully it will be available soon.
(Version 0.83) | |
| Nov 22 2003 |
ALF WATT " Only problem, my log would clear out by its self." That's actually a feature, if the log didn't clear itself out it would eventually fill up your swap disk. If you want iStumbler to remember more than the default 10 minutes you'll have to change it in the prefrence panel.
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| Nov 21 2003 |
BEBE nice prog - found tanother network on my office, that the Airport software didn't see. I hoped to see my own network, even with the SSID hidden... there should be an option to add hidden as well, I don't want to open my connection just so I can see it in here.
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| Apr 23 2004 |
ANONYMOUS iStumbler, MacStumbler, AirStumbler are all active stumblers that listen to probe requests acknowledged by the access point, the same way AirPort find them. The only way (that I know of) to view hidden networks is to use a passive stumbler like KisMac. That's an entirely different technology not supported by all cards.
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| Aug 4 2003 |
KENNETH Yes.. a very nice little app. I'm using AirPort Extreme BTW. I'm looking forward for the next GPS version.
(Version 0.81b) | |
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| Jul 18 2003 |
ANONYMOUS Good prog. Better than Macstumbler as you can set frequency on scanning. Only problem, my log would clear out by its self.
(Version 0.8b) | |
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| Jun 8 2003 |
SMEAGLE iStumbler 0.5b was been good and stable and is actively updated, unlike MacStumbler:( The display is small and inconspicuous, big pluses for certain applications ;) Not so great if you're setting up your own wireless network
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