For other people in N.Z doing wardrives

Mad-Mendez · #1 (**permalink**) 07-09-2005, 12:04 AM

Howdy people, ive just completed a very detailed wardrive (32 hours of driving around) of Palmy using kismet.

Just though anyone else doing wardrives might want to upload the results to the Wireless Geographic Loggine Engine (WiGLE)

If you do ive started up a new group for New Zealanders. We've got to beat those damn Swedish...

heres the link if people are curious as to what the story is (group ive created is called "New Zealand Wardrivers")

http://www.wigle.net/gps/gps/StatGroup/main (group 51 at this point)

what palmy looks like now....

http://www.wigle.net/gps/gps/GPSDB/onlinem...long2=175.54281

what it looked like after my wardrive using kismet last year.

Noodles · #2 (**permalink**) 07-09-2005, 03:00 PM

looks good, definately growing

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...

Noodles · #4 (**permalink**) 07-10-2005, 12:48 PM

Good work, glad you finally found a GPS that worked. I'm still yet to get a GPS, but should do at some stage, will bring more meaning to my war drives.

We did actually plan on doing a big war drive in Auckland, but never got around to doing it.

Overseas is good, still in London. Have been doing a fair bit of war walking (you heard it here first), putting my laptop in my backpack and walking around London.

Mad-Mendez · #5 (**permalink**) 07-14-2005, 08:47 AM

True... hmm get a garmin etrex, cos you can buy/make (im pretty damn sure youd be able to make this cable up) a cable to go straight to your laptop through the ol com1 port. the garmin etrex's are the cheapest GPS's around, cable is $99 (thats why i reckon one could make it) here so you'd be able to get both dirt cheap from london.

Mad-Mendez · #6 (**permalink**) 07-30-2005, 01:44 AM

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Originally posted by Noodles@Jul 10 2005, 10:48 PM
We did actually plan on doing a big war drive in Auckland, but never got around to doing it.

Overseas is good, still in London. Have been doing a fair bit of war walking (you heard it here first), putting my laptop in my backpack and walking around London.

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Just curious, how many people were you going to get? It was a NIGHTMARE doing Palmerston North!! 480 KM 32 Hours... it was NOT fun. Though if you were to give me a yell id be keen to come up and do a group wardrive (sort of separate areas in auckland and get peopel to do different areas).
Sort of like what the crazy americans do.

Um id be VERY careful with walking around with a backpack now noodles, especailly with the stuff thats been going on. An aerial sticking out of your back back is not going to be a very safe look for you. Look at this picture

Noodles · #7 (**permalink**) 07-30-2005, 06:35 PM

It's ok, I don't look foreign, nor do I run

Talk to Andrew from Borg and maybe you guys can organise a group war drive, map out all of Auckland or something

Roadkill · #8 (**permalink**) 07-31-2005, 08:09 AM

I'd be keen to tag along for the Auckland war drive :P
Can we do it rally style? Like someone drives(as I have no licence), and use the drivers laptop(as I have none), and go around in different directions for a few hours(crossing over into any area that someone has been), and try to find the most

Mad-Mendez · #9 (**permalink**) 08-01-2005, 11:08 AM

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Originally posted by Roadkill@Jul 31 2005, 06:09 PM
I'd be keen to tag along for the Auckland war drive :P
Can we do it rally style? Like someone drives(as I have no licence), and use the drivers laptop(as I have none), and go around in different directions for a few hours(crossing over into any area that someone has been), and try to find the most

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makes life easier if you have a navigator to tell you were to go and for conversation. As wardriving gets VERY boring VERY quickly. Talking to yourself helps(...not that i did... much... ) only for a little while.

Usually after 5 hours youve heard every song they are likely to play on all the radio stations.