Most effective way to collect wifi bssid and rssi data across many windows platforms

Question

I'm trying to collect wifi Bssid and Rssi information on Windows, and am looking for the most reliable way to do that across as many versions of Windows as possible. With Vista it's easy using Win32 calls with the Wireless LAN API. That API exists on XP SP2 (sometimes) and SP3, but as far as I can tell it doesn't support gathering Bssid information on those platforms.

Ideally, I'd like a way to get it on all versions of XP. (I'm guessing there's just no hope at all for Windows 95 / 98 / ME). Any programming language or commandline tool will do. Any pointers? Thanks.

Answer 1

Well, you can't get that information(from my understanding) from windows. I comes from the router itself. But Wireshark and nmap would be my guess.