In my experience there just isn't that much out there for 11a, and the range is low vs. 11b so you're less likely to see it.
Also, from the Kismet side of things, while 11a support is pretty stable, 11a doesnt't have overlapping channels so you don't get the advantage of bleedover from adjacent channels - this makes is less likely that you'll see an AP at a given moment. -m On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 06:12:00PM -0700, Kevin Lahey wrote: > > I finally got around to doing some wardriving with my T40 Thinkpad > over the last week. It uses the Atheros a/b chipset, and I was > kind of surprised to find so few 802.11a hotspots. Out of the six > hundred or so APs I spotted while riding CalTrain and driving 101 between > Santa Clara and San Francisco, I think I saw only two 802.11a APs. > > What's the deal? Is 802.11a really that underutilized? Or is the > range too short for me to easily detect while travelling? Or is > it just that the bleeding edge Kismet I was running has some > sort of bug? > > Cheers, > > Kevin > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > BAWUG's general wireless chat mailing list > [unsubscribe] http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless -- "Hostility towards Microsoft is not difficult to find on the Net, and it blends two strains: resentful people who feel Microsoft is too powerful, and disdainful people who think it's tacky. This is all strongly reminiscent of the heyday of Communism and Socialism, when the bourgeoisie were hated from both ends: by the proles, because they had all the money, and by the intelligentsia, because of their tendency to spend it on lawn ornaments." -- Neal Stephenson
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