Wireless Warsitting (as opposed to wardriving)

[Leonard, Phil]

I would put some real surge suppression on that piece of Cat5.

Philip

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
[mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of Kris Bodenheimer
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 3:18 PM
To: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: Re: Wireless Warsitting (as opposed to wardriving)

Small Garden elctric Trencher/edger:  $75
40 feet of Cat5:                                  $0.50
1 port of 100base switch:                    $1.00

Renting your neighbors use of your home network/mp3 stash/internet 
connections?  Priceless

Leonard, Phil wrote:

>If you can find someone with Speakeasy DSL they actually encourage this sort of sharing.
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>Philip
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
>[mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of Leo J Mauler
>Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 11:53 AM
>To: kclug at kclug.org
>Subject: Wireless Warsitting (as opposed to wardriving)
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>Looking at the surging price of cable modem access (just got the bill),
>I'm sitting here looking at the mini-coax connection on the Edimax
>wireless NIC and thinking: what is the practical limit of the length of
>the antenna coming out of the back of the wireless NIC?  Run it out to
>the roof or attic (from the basement) with appropriate lightning surge
>protection?
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>I'm also thinking back to the Cringeley column where he put passive
>repeaters in *trees* to bounce a 802.11b signal around a mountain. 
>Technically he was already paying for the signal, but he could have been
>stealing Internet access from just about anyone with an unsecured WAP on
>the other side of the mountain.
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>The ethical and philosophical problems aside, the technology exists for
>everyone in the city without Internet access to share with just about
>anyone else in the city with Internet access and an unsecured WAP.  With
>wireless NICs down to $29, both PCI and PCMCIA, "free" Internet access is
>just $29 away, and with a little work and a little more money you can
>bounce signals in from unsecured WAPs which are miles away from your
>home.  If someone is deliberately making their WAP unsecured to share it
>with others, thats one less ethical question to worry about (other than
>the fact that their T&C probably says "don't do this").
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>Kinda puts a new spin on the concept of "free Internet for a $99 setup
>fee!"
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>Warsitting - trying to find unsecured WAPs while moving as little as
>possible from your home.
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