Tim, a lot of great articles on homemade antennae have gotten slashdotted recently: On going 5 miles, maybe even 20 with 802.11b: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2001/05/03/longshot.html
Maybe even 25, according to ci$co: http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/197 On the security aspects of antennae: http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1422/byt20010926s0002/1001_marshall.html non-Apple support for Apple base station: http://www.vonwentzel.net/ABS/index.html the BEST antenna rundown I've yet seen: (beats pringles!!) http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/has.html (this explains that yaqi's are no good for beginners iirc) the older pringles-can article: http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448 fast packet keying (december wep-helping breakthrough): http://www.rsasecurity.com/news/pr/011217-2.html Boingo and Sputnik to leverage ex$i$ting access points: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/05/1358244&mode=nested then there's a couple of those free-network collaborations going on in portland, BC, san fran, australia, new england, london... I wanna be like them! I really like the DB-driven systems I've seen that show currently-registered points on a map as well as in a list, including current activity and some other stats... very nice indeed! If this project doesn't find focalizers soon I'll prolly be assimilated into Sputnik before long : ) ben > It would be great to have someone from seattlewireless group to give a talk > or possible help set up Eugene's wireless network. > > Tim I agree!! That'd be super-cool! -- Ben Barrett
