08-19-2002, 02:00 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Just how many WiFi access points can you find from the air?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2202653.stm
Not content to find access points using bicycles or cars, Australians have taken to the sky. "...Australians have them all beaten by using a light aircraft to fly over the city of Perth and look for the wireless nodes from 460 metres (1500 feet) up." So far they have found 95 networks. Of course, they have an iPAQ in their arsenal.  Source: Jon
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08-19-2002, 02:17 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,177
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If they flew over my house, they wouldn't find squat!
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08-19-2002, 02:28 PM
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Swami
Join Date: Feb 2004
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And the point of this would be.........?  I take it that they are mapping the Networks somehow?
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08-19-2002, 03:13 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Mar 2002
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I've seen a site recently that claims to have over 10,000 nodes in the USA mapped with a GPS.
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08-19-2002, 03:39 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 784
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Just this past weekend I went to San Francisco to visit some friends and as we were walking down Market street I pulled out my E570 armed with the Socket WLAN card and I was able to see 4 access points. A couple of them were probably from Starbucks but I know at least one wasn't because I was able to cruise the net and stream some audio. It was pretty cool just walking down the street and cruising the net, without wires!
fishd, what's the address for that site?
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08-19-2002, 04:04 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 6
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wi-fi software
where can i find software that detects access points or better yet since i am a vbasic and evb developer, where can i find sample code that deals with wi-fi and access points.
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08-19-2002, 04:16 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 12
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Re: wi-fi software
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Originally Posted by jconsole
where can i find software that detects access points or better yet since i am a vbasic and evb developer, where can i find sample code that deals with wi-fi and access points.
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Start with netstumbler (netstumbler.com), it seems to be the most popular app for the iPaq crowd.
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08-19-2002, 04:29 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 784
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I think netstumbler will only work with specific WiFi cards, so if you have a card that doesn't work with netstumbler then your card should have come with an Access Point browser built into the software that you can use.
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08-19-2002, 04:48 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 779
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Given all the horror stories of people unable even to access their own networks, what do you need to do to access a public network; do you just have to change the SSID on the Pocket PC, or is there more to it?
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08-19-2002, 05:00 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 784
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If you're in Infrastructure mode you just set the SSID as "any" and it will connect to any Access Point it finds. In ad-hoc mode I don't think you can browse ad-hoc networks, at least not with the drivers that came with my card.
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Linear Mode
