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08-09-2001
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jeah... i just drove down 395, then over king street to alexandria towards route 1 and found about 12-15 stations and i stoped at 2 and they even assigned me ip's and let me check my email! ... very kewl... i even found a AP in my office building but no clue what it is about. it gives me a 0.0.0.0 ip and that was it...
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08-13-2001
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Herndon\Reston
We're finding TONS of WAPs out there, I'm pretty surprised you had no luck. I wish the database map would let us zoom in so that we could see where all of the scans have been done etc. So far well over 300 WAPs have been loaded from the NOVA area but you'd never know it by looking at the little blue blob. Tysons has a bunch, and for a real blast zip up th etoll road. Out near Dulles you'll have picked up over a dozen from Tysons. I've not yet gone the other way but it's wild to see that you pick up different ones depending on which side of the road you're on (lol). Manasas has ben done, much of Tysons, a bunch of Herndon\Reston. I've gone down towards the mixing bowl but a circle of the Beltway would be a good idea - shame traffic is so crappy. When it gets cooler range should pick up some too. I'm not trying to grab IPs but I wish we had some way to indicate which sites are throwing them out DHCP... Perhaps we should try to coordinate our efforts?
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08-13-2001
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Herndon/Reston
Well, it's not that I didn't find any in Herndon/Reston -- actually, I found quite a few (especially in the nicer apartment complexes around here - and no, you won't find my AP anywhere as I've disabled beaconing). However, I've found many more APs in less time in Tyson's and DC. Heck, my one trip to DC - just going down K street and taking a few side streets - netted me 50 APs in about 23 minutes. Guess I'm going for the best hits/minute ratio -- I get a gas out of every time I hear the computer go BOING!
Highest densities I've found so far - around the big office building in front of On The Border in Tyson's, and on Rt66 just as you leave DC there's some building there that throws out like 7 different APs - looks like they're all the same company (and none are using WEP). -Toomer |
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08-14-2001
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The most on one point was uhm a scool just 2 blocks away from me
they have 8 Air Port's hehe... that was a very funny noise coming from my laptop in deed... boioioioibobooboboboboooiing well i hit the padel allways when i hear a boing also.. went down georgetown today and drove down in old town alexandria and some peer to peer network followed me about 10 minutes in the traffic ... (another stumbler?) i drove down 10 blocks on king street and then finally the other card lost contact ... lol well still working on my Car Antenna... and GPS should be in the mail this week! hehe |
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08-15-2001
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Weird experience...
Drove in all th eway to work and not a single AP was ofund! There are usually at least 4 or 5 on the way but today nadda. I'm going to test some tonight with my WAP but I've got a bad feeling something has taken a dump. Grr! Hopefully it's not a short in the antenna wire or anything - that would tick me off...
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08-17-2001
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jeah i noticed something like that also
when i first drove to work stumbling i had about 3-4 AP's on my way. then when i drove back i had also 4 on the other side. but now i find none. I think what one thing is the weather. prolly when the weather is good and waves fly far you find lots of AP's ... on other cruises i find ap's that i havent found be4 and other's disapear. so i guess it's the weather. but dunno what's perfect for stumbling. well will mounth my antenna on the roof of my car tomorrow and try to drive arround again :-) btw route 95-south suxx. drove from 395 edsall road to 95 dale city and only 1 AP. |
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08-19-2001
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Unless people are switching off the network at night or at the end of the day to prevent people from hacking it. I drove over to a job site today that I had installed an access point at. It is only for sharing Internet. I have no local network traffic over it yet, so the SSID is set at default. Basically anyone can get free internet within a block or so. When I was driving over there I picked up two Nokia units and two Cisco Aironet units. To my surprise no encryption on any of them just SSID - We're talking in the shopping district!
BIG5 WCWMALL This kind of cracks me up that they have crapy security. I see more consulting $$ coming my way. lol |
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