John Henckel <john.NoSP@M.formulus.com> hath wroth:

>1. Any laptop
>2. Z-Com XI-325HP+ http://www.wlanparts.com/product/XI-325HPPLUS
>3. Pigtail http://www.wlanparts.com/product/RP-MMCXNM24
>4. 3-foot parabolic antenna http://www.wlanparts.com/product/DC24-24
>
>With this kit, you will easily pick up signals 3 miles away. With clear
>line of sight 15 miles is possible.
>
>Total cost card + antenna is $135. Awesome.

That should look really impressive spinning round and round on the
roof of your vehicle. I presume you have a sun roof or drilled a big
hole in the roof for the required pole?

I do have some questions: Why would you want to see signals 3 miles
away? The GPS locations will be terribly inaccurate. Have you added
direction indication to Netstumbler? You probably would not be able
to connect to such distant access points due to the unsteady nature of
the rotating antenna mounting. Wouldn't it be easier to just drive 3
miles and locate the access point exactly? I always use a relatively
low gain antenna on my vehicle for war driving so that the locations
will be accurate. I see several vendors offering maximum gain
antennas allegedly for war driving. What am I missing or is thing
being used for something other than war driving?


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