The folks who attended the January Glasgow LUG meeting might find this interesting. Or not.
I took a drive today, and took a laptop, wireless card and GPS receiver with me. The laptop had an Orinoco card (there's a Linux driver that seems pretty stable and allows you to reset the card every couple of seconds) with just the internal antenna and was sat on the passenger seat of my car - presumably with the car bodywork providing some degree of shielding. Despite the extremely unsophisticated setup, a drive from Hillington into town, down West George Street, back up Bath Street, out to the West End, up Byres Road, along to Anniesland Cross and down to the Clyde Tunnel showed up 22 wireless LANs. Most in town. A couple around Byres Road. One at Jordanhill and one near Hillington. Most were clearly default settings and only 2 had bothered to enable WEP. I didn't try and talk to any of these networks, I was just curious to see how many were out there that would try and talk to me. Martin -- Martin McCarthy /</ PGP key available [EMAIL PROTECTED] \>\ http://www.ancient-scotland.co.uk /</ http://www.ehabitat.demon.co.uk -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
