Re: wifi signal triangulation

2006-12-18 Thread Reyk Floeter
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 12:09:12PM -0600, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: only today have i tried out hostapd, it is quite neat. while adding a 2nd AP to my network a thought occurred to me: if you had 3 APs that were sufficiently spread out and had tightly synced clocks you could likely triangulate

Re: wifi signal triangulation

2006-12-18 Thread Mitja Muženič
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Reyk Floeter Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 11:22 AM To: Jacob Yocom-Piatt Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: wifi signal triangulation On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 12:09:12PM -0600, Jacob Yocom-Piatt

Re: wifi signal triangulation

2006-12-18 Thread Reyk Floeter
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 05:15:08AM -0600, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: I would be interested in trying the hostapdsql diff ok, i need to clean it up and bring it in sync with the current hostapd first. reyk

wifi signal triangulation

2006-12-17 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
only today have i tried out hostapd, it is quite neat. while adding a 2nd AP to my network a thought occurred to me: if you had 3 APs that were sufficiently spread out and had tightly synced clocks you could likely triangulate the source of a wifi signal with a fair deal of accuracy. is this

Re: wifi signal triangulation

2006-12-17 Thread Chris Zakelj
Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: only today have i tried out hostapd, it is quite neat. while adding a 2nd AP to my network a thought occurred to me: if you had 3 APs that were sufficiently spread out and had tightly synced clocks you could likely triangulate the source of a wifi signal with a

Re: wifi signal triangulation

2006-12-17 Thread Jim Capozzoli
On 12/17/06, Jacob Yocom-Piatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: only today have i tried out hostapd, it is quite neat. while adding a 2nd AP to my network a thought occurred to me: if you had 3 APs that were sufficiently spread out and had tightly synced clocks you could likely triangulate the source of

Re: wifi signal triangulation

2006-12-17 Thread Travers Buda
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:09:12 -0600 (CST) Jacob Yocom-Piatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: only today have i tried out hostapd, it is quite neat. while adding a 2nd AP to my network a thought occurred to me: if you had 3 APs that were sufficiently spread out and had tightly synced clocks you could