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AirMagnet has been a fixture in the Wi-Fi assurance space since the company shipped its first Pocket-PC-based product almost a decade ago. AirMagnet offers a comprehensive set of tools for almost every WLAN venue, from handheld to enterprise class. For this test, we looked only at the company's WiFi Analyzer 8.0 (formerly Laptop Analyzer) product.
We used two setups of this product, one installed on our Dell notebook PC and another pre-installed on an OQO Model 02 Micro PC. The PC version's features were identical to the Micro PC version between the two, but the convenience of the latter undeniable - the OQO is a bit larger than a typical PDA-form-factor handset, but is in fact a full-function Windows XP machine. This form factor is obviously quite appropriate to Wi-Fi troubleshooting and analysis activities,...