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Mad-Mendez · #3 (**permalink**) 07-10-2005, 12:28 PM

Hmmm, true and not true i reckon noodles. There would ahve been growth due to it being almost a year after my initial wardrive, but i think the fact that i used kismet and actually did a VERY comprehensive wardrive would also make a HUGe difference. Just a comparasion

Last year:
Netstumbler

Distance driven:
200ish Km's

Time taken:
maybe 16 hours (cant remember)

This year:
Kismet

Distance driven:
480 Km's

Time taken:
32 Fricking HOURS! done over 3 days

So yeah, i went alot harder this year. Pretty much i started at 1 in the afternoon and usually went till 1-6 in the morning (less traffic). I was travelling at an average speed of about 20-30 km/hr (just so id pick up more networks) and actually drove down EVERY road in Palmerston North, i was packing myself driving around Highbury.. must have cheated and driven at 30-50Km/hr around there!

My guest-a-mate would be about 1000-1200 actual wireless networks in palmy. Of course i missed them for whatever reasons i.e attenuation, crappy weather (it started pissing 75% of my way through the wardrive on the 3rd day)

So yeah ive been a busy boy, another plus side is ive gotten into linux now, which to be honest was quite scary for me a windows user, but after 7 days of bashing my head against a wall, i figured out my initial fatal problem was that the GPS unit would work with Kismet . I was using a Novatel and Kismet couldnt handle all the info i think coming through, downgraded to an el-cheapo (not so cheap for a student, i borrowed one) garmin Etrex and it worked sweet as.

Phew... thats my long winded story done, what up at your end Noodles? how was the trip overseas?

Know what would be cool, doing massive wardrives in huge groups... like the crazy yanks do in the U.S... though.... with the price of petrol being the way it is...