Re: OT : GPS / Wardriving..?

["Marcus Warrington" <marcusw@xxxxxxx>]

Jon,

Thanks for the advice I'll check out globalpositioningsystems.co.uk
when I get a minute or two. Had a quick look at solwise the other day
(I bought my SAR715 router from them).. in order to use an external
ariel I guess I need to use a PCMCIA card as the laptop (actually
its a Toshiba XPTablet) has a built in wifi card at the moment
with no ariel socket. I do have a rebadged Orinoco Silver card
hanging around that I could use... is the little ariel jack a
standard thing or do I need a specific one .. pig tails ?

Thanks for explaining the open/closed/wep .... what about the
"bandwidth" part. I understand the SSID at the top but how would
anyone know the bandwidth ... or is it simply mean the channel
number ?

I live in Dukinfield (Manchester) and work in Northwich, where
are you ? Don't think there is a consumer node around me, but
I may be wrong.. would I not have picked it up via netstumbler ?
Already having adsl at home I haven't really felt the need to
investigate.

Marcus


Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 18:29:57 +0100 (BST)
From: Jon Fautley <jon@xxxxxxx>

> Does anyone have any knowledge/experience of wardriving..?

Jup :)

> I've loaded netstumbler and was amazed to find a few nodes
> on my journey into work, but I'm sure an external antenna
> would help find more. This first tentative venture into
> wardriving has fired me up to do more, does anyone have
> recommendations for GPS units that I can hook up to a usb
> port on the laptop (or in the future a Dell Axim) and use
> netstumbler to map locations ? Ideally the same kit could
> then be used for Navigation (I'm sure SWMBO would be impressed
> at that.. as she could spend the trips asleep then:)

Cool. I have an MLR GPS, but that hooks to the serial port.
globalpositioningsystems.co.uk (no affiliation, etc) sell a little GPS
'mouse' that connects via USB (they do a serial ver too). It's something
about the same size as a matchbox that sticks very well to the roof of a
car, and has a small amount of waterproofness. It can only be used on a
computer though, as it has no interface of any kind. Perfect for
routeplanning/wardriving with a lappy though :)

As for an external antenna, if its just for in car use, a little 10quid
jobbie from solwise (www.solwise.co.uk, again, no affiliation). This is
about 10cm high and has a magnetic base. CAble is a little short though.
Obv, with an external antenna and the slight gainit gives, it'll increase
your range/signal pickup quite considerably.

> Whats the difference (in warchalking terms) between a
> Closed Node and a Wep Node ?

A WEP node (W) is one that has WEP enabled, obviously ;)

A closed node () is one that you can associate with, maybe, but can't get
any further. A node locked down by mac address or by a firewall would be
closed.

An open node )(.. rocks lol.

BTW, where in the UK are you, and do you have a consume node? :)

Jon
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