Determining Signal Strength

So I've been working on various things to crack my WEP key. So far, things have been going quite well. Sorta.

One thing that I noticed is that I'm not getting anywhere NEAR the amount of IVs that I need.

In the span of 4hours, I had accumulated less than 1000. This is ridiculously slow.

I've searched the forum here, and I think I've determined the problem. Although I have no idea if it is or not.

I think it's the signal strength. 'Think' being the key word. I have no way to tell for sure.

At least right now.

So my question is, using the command line tools that are used to crack a WEP key, how can I determine what the signal strength is?

Airodump will report signal strength.

Netstumbler (Windows) will report signal strength using a supported card.

I took a look at Airodump tho... And I think I know what you're talking about.

And therein lies my confusion. Right now, it's reporting it '-1'. No matter of where I move, this number doesn't change at all... Is there maybe something else that'll report the strength?

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Originally Posted by Spyder_Snyper

I took a look at Airodump tho... And I think I know what you're talking about.

And therein lies my confusion. Right now, it's reporting it '-1'. No matter of where I move, this number doesn't change at all... Is there maybe something else that'll report the strength?

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I don't know what cards are properly supported in airodump, but not all cards will report signal strength properly. -1 may be an instance of that.

How far are you from the AP?

kismet do it ...

iwconfig too (just the lnk strenght)

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Originally Posted by theprez98

I don't know what cards are properly supported in airodump, but not all cards will report signal strength properly. -1 may be an instance of that.

How far are you from the AP?

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Anywhere from about 75ish feet to within 5...

And as far as the support goes, I suppose so. But everything else (including the deauth attacks) works fine. But I will try it with a different card...

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Originally Posted by Spyder_Snyper

In the span of 4hours, I had accumulated less than 1000. This is ridiculously slow.

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i had the same problem until i locked on to the channel and band of the router in airodump-ng

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Originally Posted by doggy

i had the same problem until i locked on to the channel and band of the router in airodump-ng

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Yeah, I locked it to the right channel... One of the first things I checked...

if it is going slow, have you been trying replay attacks?

kismet also tells you signal strength.

I agree with seven.

Have you tried different aireplay-ng attacks? -3, -2 ?