Re: Re: OT : GPS / Wardriving..?

[Jon Fautley <jon@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Marcus Warrington wrote:

> 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 ?

You'll need a pigtail to connect to the weird-ass connector on the orinoco
cards. They're REALLY fecking expensive here in the UK as it's a custom
connector (about 50 quid a tail at some places). I've got some from
fab-corp.com (iirc) in the US. However, ordering 2 with shipping/etc is
cheaper than getting just 1 here in the UK :
Also, the connectors are really flimsy on the cards, and the pigtail will
only stand up to about 30/40 disconnect/reconects before they die :(

> 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 ?

The bandwidth is the actual bandwidth avaliable to the internet. The idea
behind warchalking is that you'd not really wanna flag an unconnected
node. Try www.adslguide.org.uk/tools/speedtest.asp for a speed tester that
works quite well, needs java though :(
Or, sometimes a www.whatismyip.com can tell you what ISP/connection type
it is :)

> 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.

Ah, cool. I'm down in Horsham, West Sussex (darn sarf). See
www.consume.net for info on consume nodes. Just whack in your postcode and
see if there's any near you.

If you leave your node open and don't mind people using it for internet
access occasionaly, you should register on there too :)

BTW, My node name is GeekPeople, if you wanna see exactly where I am :)

Jon
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