Replying to Poor Man's Wifi

Yeah, I have a thirteen inch one and it works great for everything. I dont really know how i could live with out it. this wifi is pretty much the longest i've ever seen but then again i dont know much. I havent really been around enough to get the feel of wifi's besides mine. I have however touched many of its counterparts but that is another story. Peace out bros

i am trying to make an omnidireccional antenna to reach 20 dbi but it is going to be very big as i am making my calculation, if you want to have free internet make a big one

That technique is called "Wardriving" http://www.wardriving.com/ It can be used to use someone else's unprotected Wi-Fi connection. The downside- you have to be in a car or something mobile not your desktop. I'm not sure if its entirely legal either.

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Wardriving is perfectly legal in the United States, when you connect to unsecured connections. ISA says other wise about cracking codes. Oh, and the FCC has issues with antenna modding, and the best antenna is that which is half the wavelength.

a very nice post , i would like to build the prototype can u elobrate on the device and methods used to build it

thankx

wow! a distance of 10 miles! what a device you can just make yourself. it be great for hacking or something into some buildings WIFI connection. but bad if you get caught...

One time, many moons ago on tech tv, they had an segment on making an cantenna. They used a coffee can, and some other parts to make a long-range antenna. I read a review on line, and they made a lan with 2 of them. It had a range of over 2 miles with 802.11g. I had the article on my computer, but it got lost after my last format.

how about the speed of the antenna? is it good or slow , also you have any antena for G 54mbps

If you are into wardriving, you should know that there are a few places here in the US that there are "traps" setup to catch you.

In the town I live there are 1 such trap and it's monitored by the police. They use a directional transmit /receive antenna that cross over a major road where it illegal to stop or park. Right next to the road is a huge private parking lot where you can park out of the way and out of view from trafic and bypassers. Most of the wardrivers use the wifi locators that companies use to find the optimum location for an antenna so just driving by on that main road will spike the meter.

It's only one way in and out. As soon as "snort" goes of, the police put a cruiser at the end of the road. If you don't go onto an illegal site they just leave when you close the transmission. If you go on an illegal site, dispatch calls the cruiser and you get nabbed

4 people caught last year, 1 was an eBay scammer.

That technique is called "Wardriving" http://www.wardriving.com/ It can be used to use someone else's unprotected Wi-Fi connection. The downside- you have to be in a car or something mobile not your desktop. I'm not sure if its entirely legal either.

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That is not true. If you live in an apartment complex where some idiot has an unsecured access point then you can definitely do that. I do it all the time. Sometimes I wonder why I pay for my own net connection.