In addition people looking for AP maps and technical info can also try:
http://www.personaltelco.net
By agreement among some of the local groups around the country this site is supposed
to act as a clearing house for the different groups. It has a fairly good section
with AP maps for different areas.
http://nocat.net
This is the Sonoma County group. I beleive some of the people involved work at
O'Reilly so they have emphasized writing technical papers many of which are posted on
the site, including the amazingly wonderful Pringles Potato Chip can antenna (be sure
to throw the chips outs, don't eat them they taste like cardboard).
Jim Windle
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On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 10:18:16 Trei, Peter wrote:
>
>Two points:
>
>People interested in finding wireless access points, and
>tech info about the same, should look at
>
>GAWD: http://www.shmoo.com/gawd/
>BAWUG: http://www.bawug.org
>
>The Starbucks access points will apparently require Microsoft
>Wallet, and some kind of charge-per-minute software.
>
>Peter Trei
>
>
>
>> ----------
>> From: Eugene Leitl[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 5:37 AM
>> To: David Honig
>> Cc: Sampo Syreeni; Ray Dillinger; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Re: Open 802.11b wireless access points and remailers
>>
>> On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, David Honig wrote:
>>
>> > Bear has a point; no matter how you spread or hop, you're an emitter.
>> > Shoot anything that radiates from 50 Mhz-IR.
>>
>> Ultrabroadband is currently hard to triangulate, unless you're part of the
>> network, where TOF mutual triangulation is part of service.
>>
>> You could triangulate ultrabroadband with an antenna array, but in real
>> life the reflexion and multipath will make it difficult.
>
>
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