RE: [inbox] RE: Cisco LEAP exploit tool...

["Curt Purdy" <purdy () tecman com>]

Jeff Schreiner wrote:
> The situation I was thinking of was of a wireless router or
> access point
> with an out of the box physical configuration using the two supplied
> omni-directionals (that most wireless routers come with)
> being mounted say
> in the center of the 1st or 2nd floor of an office complex in
> a metropolitan
> area.  Is it realistically possible to pick up a signal from
> 7 miles away
> without any modification whatsoever to the transmitting station?

Absolutely not.  As I mentioned before even if you tower mounted an external
high-db omni outside (100 times the transmitting power of the little
built-in omnis) you could not get near 7 miles.  My estimation is that
considering the walls in the building, you would be doing good to pick up
anything 100 yards from the building edge, even with a yagi.

Curt Purdy CISSP, GSEC, MCSE+I, CNE, CCDA
Information Security Engineer
DP Solutions

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