-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Well for months now, I've been wondering what all the hoopla was about Mesh networking and meshed AP's. It sounded impractical except for very densely-populated, urban, geek-infested, affluent areas.
Then I finally hammered together a working combination of kismet, orinoco drivers, and libpcap. And drove around one small corner of my sleepy, low-tech, beach-town of Pacifica. And found... 102 live access points!!?!? I expected maybe 1 or 2... a dozen, tops. But 102 of 'em? Driving around, jaw hanging open, mumbling "Holy shit..." a la John Belushi. Pretty near saturation coverage-- lots of overlapping beacons. This in a town where, at a recent gathering of 20 or so local residents, only 3 actually raised their hands when asked who had *any* Internet access at home! Lifting off the grid suddenly seems less of a pipe dream, and more like... an inevitability. - -ken - -- - --------------- The world's most affordable web hosting. http://www.nearlyfreespeech.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+4vx+e8HF+6xeOIcRAndGAJ4q456JSn99L/fpyVI9nm7BvgB+dgCfZd5b zBVLtv/0GLoAoSYfI7nggQ8= =ve3+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
