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Re: WEEPING FOR WEP
From: Troy Cregger <tcregger () kennedyinfo com>
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:41:31 -0400
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Really? Like how far?
Like, I can probably get my car up over 45mph(72.42kph) before I get to the end of my driveway far.
I've done point-to-multipoint (me with 24db parabolic, them with a standard omni) at 6 miles (granted, I was on the 12th floor of a building).
Yeah, there's some cool shit that can be done with wireless/WRT/WDS/parabolocs... a friend of mine was experimenting with some directional antenna and the WRT54Gs running one of the 3rd party firmwares. He got some pretty far reaching signals. But he had tall buildings around too. Where I'm at, you'd be in a tree.
2 Linksys boxes running OpenWRT and a decent battery (actually using WDS you could have a whole string of such devices) sort of negates the mosquito/bear/skunk problem if you're so far away that you can't be found with a reasonably high-gain antenna.
You'll need a bunch of em... it takes me 25 minutes to drive to the grocery, and I know a shortcut.
WEP is basically a screen door, and always has been.
True, I won't argue with that. I just need to deter the neighbors from trying a simplified version of the above so they can get free broadband access, but even if it was an open AP, I doubt anyone would bother. Where I live, I'm lucky if my broadband connection is working at all. In the last 4 months alone I've gotten over $100 credited to me on my cable bill for downtime. My house came hard wired for a generator... that pretty much says it all right there. I wouldn't trade it for anything though, not even heating my food on the wood stove like it's 1827 when the power is out for 26 hours. NOTE: I still need to pick up a generator, anyone know of one for sale? ;o) Michael Holstein wrote:
I use WEP at home, even though my house is far enough from the road to make it rather difficult for someone to jump on my network.Really? Like how far? I've done point-to-multipoint (me with 24db parabolic, them with a standard omni) at 6 miles (granted, I was on the 12th floor of a building).Even if someone decided to hide in the woods at the edge of my yard with a laptop they're more likely to be eaten by a bear, sprayed by a skunk, or chewed alive by mosquitoes2 Linksys boxes running OpenWRT and a decent battery (actually using WDS you could have a whole string of such devices) sort of negates the mosquito/bear/skunk problem if you're so far away that you can't be found with a reasonably high-gain antenna. WEP is basically a screen door, and always has been. ~Mike.
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- Re: WEEPING FOR WEP Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 06)
- Re: WEEPING FOR WEP Michael Holstein (Apr 06)
- Re: WEEPING FOR WEP Troy Cregger (Apr 06)
- Re: WEEPING FOR WEP Kevin Finisterre (lists) (Apr 06)
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