Freq Scan/site survey from remote location

RouterOS Wireless Networking
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Is there a way to do a scan with a wireless card to see what channels are being used from a remote location that is connected wirelessley?

I want to do this, but as you know, the link drops, winbox drops the link to the remote RB, and then you never see what was scanned.

Is there a way to perform the scan, allow it to reconnect to the AP, then provide the information, OR even to email it, store it in a log file, anything?

Come to think of it, I’m thinking a script can be made to do such a thing then record in a log file. Email would be hard since there would be no link to the mail server ( If it was over the wireless )

Thanks for any help.

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This is a good idea and interests me too :astonished:

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I’ve pondered this as well.
Only thing I can think of is create a script that will run the scan for xx seconds, log the results to disk or file and then reboot.
Then you can log back in and read the log or file.

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Never mind…seen this before.
Unless there is a timer option put into the scan feature, there appears to be know way to stop it.

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You may can temporary change the AP as the station mode since you using the directional antenna to connect each.

This because if you remote site is clean but the local is not, what’s the different?

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Sometimes from your high site you can’t “hear” all the frequencies that remote site is listening and overlapping may occur.
With a scan from remote site you can better plan changes of your area.

So what about this idea:
Start a countdown reboot of the router (just a scheduled reboot of 20 secs?)
Start scan with logging realtime into disk
After 20 secs the router reboots and back to normal.

Dunno if it’s possible to log realtime or it’s necessary to stop the scan before logging to disk.
I’m not good with scripts :confused: