Q: What 802.11 protocols does the AirMagnet Handheld support?
A: The AirMagnet handheld supports WLANs based on the 802.11b specification.
Additionally, AirMagnet supports emerging security standards such as 802.1x,
as well as Cisco's LEAP/TKIP/MIC. Support for the 802.11a spec will be
available in nearly 2003.

Q: How long is the Compaq ip AQ battery life with AirMagnet running?
A: with backlight off, iPAQ battery sustains around four hours of AirMagnet operation. Additionally, Compaq offers expansion packs, which allow users to swap lightweight batteries for extended use

Q: What is the technology that drives the AirMagnet Handheld?
A: The Airmagnet Handheld is powered by AirWISE,the company's patent pending performance and securty monitoring platform that helps network professionals manage the WLAN networks.

Air WISE automatically collects network performance statistics, identifies and tracks wireless devices and their distinguishing characteristics, monitors the health of a WLAN, pinpoints WLAN problems, and suggests potential solutions for problem resolution.

Q: What's Different About the AirMagnet Handheld?
A: The AirMagnet Handheld was designed specifically for 802.11 WLAN network and security administration. It has a complete set of tools needed to install, secure administer, troubleshoot, and manage WLANs. It operates on a PocketPC device, to be able to go where the network is. And it organizes information the way professionals work, through a highly organized user interface.

Q: Will the AirMagnet Handheld software work with wireless access cards other than the card bundled with the product?
A: No, the software is designed to work only with the card bundled with the AirMagnet handheld software.

Q: Why is that?
A: AirMagnet adds special drivers to produce a wealth of information from lower lever RF signal noise level, packet error rate, to higher level ping, diag, and find utilities to assist network professional to administer and secure their wireless network. It is also designed to provide seamless integration to support other wireless LAN applications on your pocket PC. Unlike other brands of WLAN protocol analyzers, AirMagnet driver is plug and play, and it does not turn your computer into a protocol analyzer only instrument. However, even with the addition of AirMagnet drivers, your iPaq or Laptop continues to function with all the things you expect like acess to email, the Internet or corporate resources.

Q: When using the ping and traceroute utilities on the AirMagnet Handheld, what happens to the AirMagnet's analysis tools?
A: Ping and traceroute are active applications requiring general communication through the network card. While these applications are running, the live capture function will be paused-so these tools are not available to generate traffic for live capture. They are best used to test the connectivity of other wireless stations.