Cheap antennas

["Lachniet, Mark" <mlachniet () sequoianet com>]

FWIW, I've had good luck buying antennas and wireless equipment from YDI
(www.ydi.com).  I have no relationship with the vendor, just found them
to be clueful and helpful.

Mark Lachniet

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alvin Oga [mailto:alvin.sec () Mail Linux-Consulting com] 
> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 9:16 PM
> To: Mister Coffee
> Cc: andrew () arhont com;     
> Subject: antenna - Re: Wireless pentesting requirements
>
>
> On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Mister Coffee wrote:
>
> > > Most of the wireless stuff we do involves mangling custom 802.11 
> > > frames, injecting traffic into the network without knowing WEP, 
> > > accelerating WEP cracking, phishing and guessing users 
> credentials 
> > > etc. - Wi-Foo
> > > (www.wi-foo.com) describes it all pretty much. For all of 
> this, open 
> > > specs for both firmware and drivers are vital.
> > > >
> > Good reference site, definately.
> >
> > I should see about compiling a list of good antenna sites 
> for those who are interested.  There's some sweet commercial 
> gear, but it's expensive.  You can build some very nice home 
> brew antennas, of course, there's a lot of good information 
> on antenna design (there's a number of places to get the 
> calcs for building a Yagi, for example), but not much 
> -inexpensive- test gear in that range, or information on 
> coupling, that I've seen.
>
> how about
>       http://linux-wireless.org/Antenna
>
> c ya
> alvin