Hi there peoples,
Heres the situation. Im conducting a war drive as part of my 4th year engineering project. Just need peoples comments as to what hardware people thing is suitable for this. Will be using a laptop of course.
looked promising, but its only a 802.11b card, does it matter?
have had a look on borg.co.nz, but cant find anything, have also called up but he's out and im waiting for him to cal me back. Alot of you have done war drives before and have alot more experience on the matter than me.
Just a shocking statistic, drove around with just the standard wireless card in a laptop and found that more than 60% of wireless networks are NOT secured. Pretty scary.
Spoke to Alex at Borg, he reckons his b cards pick u the g cards in linux. Hmm so he says he'll test it out in net stumbler on windows.
he says that the reason you dont get g cards with external aerials is because they flood the spectrum...
more to do with FCC restrictions... though technically that should mean 0 to us as we dont answer to those silly yankees.. we answer to the MED. Same reason it's difficult to find .a gear with antenna jacks. check out seattlewireless's hardware pages though.. there's a wealth of info there..
the .b+ card (dlink dwl650+ taken from within a 900ap+) that Techie and I use for wardriving picks up .g networks within netstumbler...
I should be posting by weeks end about the equipment we use, including my new ministumbler setup
Most probably, my hearing is impared from listening to loud music
Well i spoke to the Oniroco wireless division manager and he assures me that the 802.11 b Gold card WILL pick up G wireless networks in netstumbler...
oo oo oo! update on my war driving attempt, i managed to get my hand on a GPS system... i now have GPS coordinates for 10/37 wireless networks we previously found.
With that GPS data, ill be able to transpose it to an Orthophoto (pretty much satalite photography with positional data in it) of Palmerston North.
Should have a very nice photo with all the secured and unsecured nodes marked on the map of palmy.
Have put through an order to Andrew at borg.co.nz for better wardriving equipment, if anyone ever puts down his prices ill personally beat them. All the prices I got quoted from the oniroco manager were WAY more than borg.co.nz. Thumbs up to Borg.co.nz! you guys RULE! :wink:
well from what Ive found, the DSE XH6821 card, though it is rubbish really, can pick up 802.11b/g signals, discern between them and connect at full speed to all, even tho it is said to be impossible, if all u want is wardriving, then get one of these and solder an antenna cable on to it. ive got mine rigged up with a D-Link AP-Stub antenna, these lil beauties are rated at 3dbi but I reckon that it is actually about 6, maybe 12dbi. as there are no connectable sigs in my house without, but with, I can connect to the AP on my roof or my neighbours AP (which has to go through me an trees)
apples and oranges.. omni's are going to have a different price/gain ratio to directionals
If you were that hard up about an antenna, you could have easily popped one together after a quick trip to tricky dickies.. I'm rapt with my biquad and that cost me about 20 bucks to make...
anyway, dont get mad - get even. I got tired of waiting and just got my stuff elsewhere - the senao gear from my ISP, nzwireless.co.nz, and the pigtails etc from tardme
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