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Planeplotter set up router software#
Planeplotter set up router windows 7#

Each computer has a dongle connected and configured using the steps I outlined in this post.

Planeplotter set up router windows 7#

Secondary PC: In the bedroom is a Dell Mini 10v Netbook running Windows 7 Basic and connected to my network by wifi (802.11n).

This machine is connected by ethernet to my router. That may sound unnecessarily complicated but I’m comfortable with Macs and OS X and I had a spare iMac capable of running Windows.

Primary PC: in the living room, a 20″ Intel iMac (2006 model) running OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and on which I’ve installed Boot Camp, partitioned the hard drive, and installed Windows 7 Ultimate, set to be the startup disk.

an understanding spouse who will let you run a computer 24/7 in the bedroom (I’m a very lucky man.

Planeplotter set up router software#

the RTL1090 software installed on both computers.a wired or wireless network to which you can connect the two computers - your router needs to support UDP (most do).two computers (odds are you have one already setup otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this yet).My bedroom faces south and my living room west, and that gives me relatively good coverage of roughly 240˚. I’m using the latter, with one dongle plugged into a desktop computer in the living room and a second dongle plugged into a netbook in the bedroom. These instances can be running on the same computer or on different computers on the same network.

RTL1090 includes a wickedly cool feature that lets you string instances of the software together. So what can you do to expand your coverage in other directions so your software (Virtual Radar Server, PlanePlotter, etc) is seeing more of the horizon? A plot of the maximum distance at which I’ve tracked aircraft using my two RTLSDR dongles. If you’re even more like me, you can’t get your antenna up to the roofline so it has a nice 360˚ view of the sky. If you’re like me, you’ve setup your RTLSDR dongle, you’ve connected some software to it, you’ve seen some aircraft on your screen and you’ve said, “Cool! How do I see more?”