Strange SSID's.....
Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2003 8:43 am
While driving has anyone noticed any strange named Peer networks? I live in Northwestern Indiana, work in Portage, Indiana to be exact and have been noticing SEVERAL strange wireless networks, all of the are peer networks, they have what appears to be dynamically created SSIDs (could be static, too), they also have strange, non-registered mac addresses, otherwise I would just blow it off. I've found 6 such networks (two of the mac-addresses below are identical, so i'm assuming they were the same device, at two different points in time, hence the differing SSIDs)
Two of these wireless networks in particular seemed to "follow" me for about 10 miles down US 30, from Merrilville to Valparaiso. I've had theories that it may be a palm or windows ce/ pocket pc device with 802.11, or a cellular phone that has internet access... maybe a wireless ISP, I'm really at a total loss.
Anyone else that has seen similar networks and would like to work on this problem together, email me @ vr_assassin@yahoo.com with your netstumbler files.
Here is a copy of the SSID's and mac addresses, and channels, that i have found these devices to be running on. (the ssids seem to be in the range of 128000 - 134000 thus far)
ssid mac channel
133011 16-00-83-01-83-01 14,6
131117 0E-03-32-03-6F-02 14,6
133011 E2-01-0D-03-32-03 6
131037 9E-00-E0-01-0D-03 6
129179 2E-02-AF-01-7D-01 6,14
129179 E2-01-0D-03-32-03 6
128189 B2-02-F6-01-C6-03 6
Two of these wireless networks in particular seemed to "follow" me for about 10 miles down US 30, from Merrilville to Valparaiso. I've had theories that it may be a palm or windows ce/ pocket pc device with 802.11, or a cellular phone that has internet access... maybe a wireless ISP, I'm really at a total loss.
Anyone else that has seen similar networks and would like to work on this problem together, email me @ vr_assassin@yahoo.com with your netstumbler files.
Here is a copy of the SSID's and mac addresses, and channels, that i have found these devices to be running on. (the ssids seem to be in the range of 128000 - 134000 thus far)
ssid mac channel
133011 16-00-83-01-83-01 14,6
131117 0E-03-32-03-6F-02 14,6
133011 E2-01-0D-03-32-03 6
131037 9E-00-E0-01-0D-03 6
129179 2E-02-AF-01-7D-01 6,14
129179 E2-01-0D-03-32-03 6
128189 B2-02-F6-01-C6-03 6