RE: [nycwireless] Philly wants to be the biggest hot spot

2004-09-01 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
I hear some of those commies have even installed free roads and sidewalks! Some cities even contain parks and libraries open to the public. -- Daniel On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Jim Henry wrote: ]Yep, or maybe the government can start giving me my electricity, water, ]phone, and food for free too! ] ]-

Re: [nycwireless] Sveasoft no longer free :-(

2004-07-22 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
]That is the thing I can't seem to figure out per GPL, the idea is if you ]pay $ for software it *must* include the source, thus if the source is ]passed on to everyone else .. there is nothing to say its "against the ]law" since no company license is allowed to pass. No, they don't have to inclu

Re: [nycwireless] Sveasoft no longer free :-(

2004-07-22 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
If you downloaded a copy of their firmware they must provide you with the source if you ask within a reasonable time. I believe it's two years, but you can look at the GPL for the particulars. I'm sure if you point this out to them they will let you download the source, and then I'll host the bina

Re: [nycwireless] Re: Confessions of a War Driver

2004-07-01 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
]From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 8:22 AM ]Subject: [nycwireless] Re: Confessions of a War Driver ] ] ]Daniel Thor Kristjansson wrote: ] ]> It may be illegal in some places, it may not. Depends on how good ]> your ]> ]> lawyer is and how wast

Re: [nycwireless] Confessions of a War Driver

2004-07-01 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
]> It may be illegal in some places, it may not. Depends on how good your ]> lawyer is and how wasteful of taxpayer money our prosecutor is. Your quote of the FBI agent: ] Identifying the presence of a wireless network may not be a ]criminal violation, however, there may be criminal viola

RE: [nycwireless] Confessions of a War Driver

2004-07-01 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
It may be illegal in some places, it may not. Depends on how good your lawyer is and how wasteful of taxpayer money our prosecutor is. One way to look at it is some guy has a piece of land with a 10 year lease and decides he wants a park, so he hires a contractor to build him a public park. It ha

Re: [nycwireless] Re: Knocking Out Wireless Networks with a PDA

2004-05-24 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
There is no such thing as protected spectrum if we're talking about public safety in the US. If you are willing to break the social contract you can transmit on any frequency any time with as many transmitters as you can afford. And you don't have to colocate near the transmitter and so get caugh

Re: [nycwireless] Legal signal strength?

2004-04-20 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
True, but missleading. You can transmit 1 Watt if your antenna is a 5 cm piece of wire. The more directional the antenna the less power you can transmit. If you search through the archive you will find the prorating and the FCC source of the information. Note also that 802.11b equipment is certif

RE: [nycwireless] alt.coffee ixnays the owerpay

2004-02-03 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
It's not about the power usage. I asked one of the counter persons and she listed things like people unplugging lamps, things getting stuck in outlets, people sitting in the best seats all day. Even though they had tried to accomidate the customers with power strips. Basically a number of problems

Re: [nycwireless] Hotspot sniffer for Mac OS X?

2004-01-31 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
FYI As a former shareware developer I'd just like to point out that you do have to pay for shareware. It's the try-before-you-buy model. Usually you can try it for up to 30 days and usually it's not much, I only charged $10 for SimplyEdit (Scriptable DOS editor of the late 80's made by Bungee Soft

Re: [nycwireless] astoria to upper east

2003-12-16 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
You might want to just use a message for your SSID such as 'nycw-cloud - email srrzepecki_a_yahoo_com' Then people can try it without contacting you beforehand, and then e-mail you if they get a signal. -- Daniel << When truth is outlawed; only outlaws will tell the truth. >> - RLiegh On Tue,

Re: [nycwireless] a WiFi positioning database

2003-12-10 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Anthony Townsend wrote: ]hmmm i can see a # of interesting problems right off the bat. ]For example - what about accumulated errors when you start ]daisy-chaining inferred locations? Triangulation. At least where I move about in NYC there are never less than 3-4 active WiFi

Re: [nycwireless] a WiFi positioning database

2003-12-09 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
Write it and they will come. You could do something simple like create a Palm/WinCE map viewer for NYC that zoomed you in and marked a 'you are here' on the right spot on the map whenever it saw a wifi ethernet address in its database that it recognized and also collected more ethernet addresses.

Re: [nycwireless] AT&T EDGE network?

2003-12-03 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
It doesn't seem worth the bother at 100-200 kbps. What can you do with that trickle of bandwidth that you can't with a 9.6k modem? And modems over a cell phone are more reliable than these data services over the cell networks seem to be. My experience is with Sprint PCS, probably other services ar

[nycwireless] equipment for WLAN MAN

2003-11-20 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
points more gain ill have? i thought using ]> > ]one access point for each 500/700 ft radio, but as you told me, the ]> > ]fact the user with his laptop inside his house have connection varies a ]> > ]lot, in the worst case, i should install on his house an 'extra ]> &g

Re: [nycwireless] verizon, the bully of bryant park

2003-11-14 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
If you have the source for the driver it should be easy to add a check for that prioritizes nycwireless. It may be difficult to add a general purpose ssid preference but this should only be one or two lines. You might want to read the mailing list for the driver development and perhaps explain you

Re: [nycwireless] Welchia virus problems

2003-11-13 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
I don't think there is a good solution right now. I also block the Microsoft service ports which are a common source of holes for the Microsoft vermin to infect a new victim. There was a new CERT warning out just yesterday about a new hole in Workstation Services so it's just going to get worse wh

Re: [nycwireless] yagi mounting suggestions ...

2003-11-11 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
You don't want to lay it flat against the building. The building will become part of the antenna and it is almost certainly not a good WiFi antenna. The good news is that just 5 or 6 inches should be enough distance from the building. Just make sure you're not trying to go through fire-escapes, th

Re: [nycwireless] Panel Examines Wi-Fi Liability Issues

2003-11-04 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
]There is current case law, Halpert said, in the state of Maine that ]holds Verizon liable for not meeting quality-of-service agreements with ]its customers after a computer worm disabled a data network and resulted ]in considerable down time for those users. Down time due to a third ]party's acti

[nycwireless] antennas

2003-10-21 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
I was making myself a better TV antenna and I ran across this.. http://www.kyes.com/antenna/navy/rpatterns/radiapat.htm#antennatypes It shows you the various common antenna types and their radiation patterns. These can all be scaled for WiFi use and some may be better than what we're currently

[nycwireless] MISTICA: institute@wsis and WIFI (fwd)

2003-10-20 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
FYI, this may be of interest to some of the ppl doing interesting things like wireless bicycles. -- Daniel << When truth is outlawed; only outlaws will tell the truth. >> - RLiegh -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:54:05 -0400 From: Daniel Pimienta <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [nycwireless] Custom Shielding for AP or Antenna?

2003-10-19 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
Anything conductive. Aluminum foil works, but you can also get thicker pieces of foil that are easier to work with on Canal street. I also bought some copper tape with conductive adhesive for grounding purposes online for about $15 once. As long as the width of the metal is not near a quarter wave

Re: [nycwireless] Which Antenna

2003-10-14 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
Those antenna's all seem very overpriced. I got 14 dbi yagi's for about $25 from dbiplus when I did a group purchase for NYCWireless members last year. You should be able to get one for about $50 when buying just one. Superpass has patch antennas for very reasonable prices too. Any of 10 dB or be

Re: [nycwireless] Fw: Dictionary attack against Cisco's LEAP, Wireless LANs vulnerable

2003-10-03 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
This seems to be a protocol problem with RADIUS authentication. The protocol is S->C : server sends nonce to client C->S : client sends cryptographic hash of nonce to server S->C : server sends ACK/NACK to client if ACK (server trusts client) C->S : client sends nonce to server S->C : se

Re: [nycwireless] 802.11g enhancement war heats up

2003-10-01 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
Does anyone on list have any experience with either of these 802.11g chipsets? The most important question for me is how do these compare to the ORiNOCO Silver and and Cisco 350 for range when talking to 802.11b networks? Also what kind of driver support do they have. How good is the xBSD, Mac OS

Re: [nycwireless] RIAA's mistake highlights 802.11 vulnerability

2003-09-24 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
Hopefully we have educated enough of the media that this will not be spun as "clueless consumers don't secure their WiFi access points against music sharers" but as "RIAA cartel goes after charity based internet providers for providing internet access to inner-city kids and working class Americans

Re: [nycwireless] ISPs limiting bandwidth behind the scenes?

2003-09-22 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
I doubt that we will see these unofficial caps with bway, cloud9, acedsl, etc. They read this forum and know that the word would spread quickly if they did something like that. I and many others don't have a problem with caps per say, but with the unknowable nature of how these are enforced. If, f

Re: [nycwireless] linksys wireless-g: poor reception after accident(s)

2003-09-19 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
1/ you can damage it 2/ you may have damaged it 3/ since it still works at all, then if it is damaged it's probably just the antenna or antenna connector that is damaged. (a) The antenna can be damaged if it is bent in any way. The fix in that case is to bend it back into it's original shape. (b)

Re: [nycwireless] Fwd: Verisign DNS

2003-09-16 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
Isn't this just the perfect opportunity to re-root DNS. It seems as if the whole ICANN/NetworkSolutions mess seems to be a steaming pile of s**t as far as a lowly internet user like me can tell (One whose hard won ICANN vote was ignored...) If enough large ISP's, say AOL, Earthlink, etc. could be

[nycwireless] [limawireless] LinuxAP (fwd)

2003-09-15 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
I just glommed this off the Lima wireless mailing list. Here's the English version http://linuxap.ksmith.com/ It's an alternative to pepple linux for running an AP on Soekeris hardware. It's not as full featured, but also consumes less flash memory. -- Daniel <> -- Anon. -- Forwarded

Re: [nycwireless] POE question

2003-09-08 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
The RX/TX pairs are not really affected no matter where you pull out the power wires. What I do is make a standard cable so that the plug has all the wires in there and hence is mechanically ok. Then I cut through the sheath near the plugs and cut the unused pairs. Then I cut through it a few inch

Re: [nycwireless] POE question

2003-09-08 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
As I remember it one of them is for stranded core wire and one is for solid core wire. Both A/B do keep the RX and TX pairs matched which is the electrically important thing. Using the right standard for your wire is only important for that last aspect, what happens if someone else repairs one end

Re: [nycwireless] POE question

2003-09-08 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
You are making the cables incorrectly, but this won't effect POE because the unused wires are supposed to go straight through and you are using DC for POE and not AC so which wires are matched doesn't matter. But you should google for the correct wiring, if you don't use matched pairs for the RX

[nycwireless] 802.16

2003-08-29 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
Bon asked me to look at 802.16 as far as it's impact on WiFi. I thought this might be of general interest. 802.16, 802.16a and 802.16b are wireless standards designed with cell phone carriers in mind. They all work in licensed spectrum, but there is a working group for unlicenced 802.16. One of B

[nycwireless] OT : Windows 2003 Server for the Enterprise

2003-08-27 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
It is also worth noting that if you get audited the BSA doesn't care a wit if you have a box and documentation for all your software. You need to have a receipt for it all. The rationale is that you might just go out and buy legal licenses for all your software the day of the audit so they need re

Re: [nycwireless] handling email borne viruses

2003-08-22 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
I don't think John or anyone else thinks blocking port 25 is the solution to Outlook worms. But I don't see why it isn't a legitamite way to do some damage control, especially on a no-cost public node. The alternatives of throttling port 25 connections, dropping e-mail hogs, disconnecting infecte

[nycwireless] appology for poo-pooing the virus could have caused power outageidea

2003-08-21 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/6767 Apparently the same people that advised the Chainey to call for more nuclear power plants, further deregulation of the energy industry and the scrapping of Nixon's pollution laws didn't just get caught for running a nuclear reactor with a huge HOLE in the r

Re: [nycwireless] Wifi-Hog - Info / Talk

2003-08-16 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
On Sat, 16 Aug 2003, Lars Aronsson wrote: ]I cannot speak for others, but my reaction was not of this kind. I ]think that the Wifi-Hog is just an obvious idea, like a kid that ]shouts and screams to draw attention, and that this is not a threat at I would tend to agree. I think the most appropri

Re: [nycwireless] Power outage possibly caused by MS worm ...

2003-08-15 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
I think it's much more likely due to the rid going to sh*t because of energy deregulation and the lax regulation preceeding it. Does anyone really think we'd still have just three wires connecting Manhattan to the grid if there were severe penalties for power outages to the independent operator? L

Re: [nycwireless] Wifi-Hog - Info / Talk

2003-08-14 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
I'll never understand why people like to create Denial of Service scripts for 14 y.o. boys. But if you must, at least make it specific so that the user is given a list of the active IP's and is allowed to select one to knock off the air. Then maybe it will be used to annoy their friends and enemie

Re: [nycwireless] Wifi-Hog - Info / Talk

2003-08-14 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
to it.. ] ]Hope that clarifys a bit - if not please come to my talk and I'd be ]happy to extrapolate.. ]jbc ] ] ] ]At 12:04 PM -0400 8/14/03, Daniel Thor Kristjansson wrote: ]>I'll never understand why people like to create Denial of Service ]>scripts for 14 y.o. boys. But if you mu

[nycwireless] Linux Journal NYCWireless article...

2003-08-14 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
Doc Searl's article on NYCWireless is out in the September issue of LJ. There is a picture from inside alt.coffee & a quite scary Kurt Starsinic, as well as a veritable Macintosh Advertisment featuring (the Linux based) Bass Station. The article is pretty glowing overall, and manages to touch on

Re: [nycwireless] [ot - maybe?] sco vs. embedded linux ...

2003-08-14 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
SCO hasn't contacted me about licensing any of Linux to them, this is known in most circles as fraud. RedHat has started a legal fund to sue these suckers out of existance if the Justice Department can't be induced to indict the ring leaders of the scam. -- Daniel << When truth is outlawed; onl

RE: [nycwireless] Wifi-Hog - Info / Talk

2003-08-14 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
]face it, administrators and l33t d00d$ cohabitate in a symbiotic ]relationship. one pushes the other's buttons 'til he/she gets off his lazy ]ass and does his/her job right. I've yet to meet an 'l33t d00d' are for the most part just clueless kids with bad parents or bad social environment. As I s

Re: [nycwireless] One Slow User in Hot Spot Can Degrade Wi-Fi

2003-08-03 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Terry Ewing wrote: ]One of the questions I've had is why was 802.11a/b/g based on Ethernet ]rather than ATM? ATM has QoS guarantee and shaping built within the ]protocol. ATM assumes you have small cells of data for easy switching, but when you are dealing with wireless or any

Re: [nycwireless] Re: One Slow User In The Hot Spot Can DegradeWi-Fi

2003-08-03 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
A WAP-11 can be told to only use certain speeds, with the right software. It actually has two bitmasks, one for connecting speeds and another for what fall back speeds are allowed. I've topped mine out at 2 Mbps for greater range as well. I do wish all clients could to this instead though. -- Dan

Re: [nycwireless] One Slow User in Hot Spot Can Degrade Wi-Fi

2003-08-03 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
This has been known since the protocol was put together, I don't know how this qualifies as research, you can just read the IEEE spec. I think the "hidden node" problem was actually not identified before they ratified 802.11b, and I don't think it's been taken care of in a or g, though you can alw

[nycwireless] WRT54G

2003-07-31 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
To anyone interested in modifying the Linksys WRT54G for community wireless uses... http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3580 -- Daniel << When truth is outlawed; only outlaws will tell the truth. >> - RLiegh -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net

Re: [nycwireless] Mac OS X and wireless

2003-07-29 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
to rollback my orinoco ]driver @ one point to pick up certain aps (on xp). ] ]- jon ] ]pgp key: http://www.jonbaer.net/jonbaer.asc ]fingerprint: F438 A47E C45E 8B27 F68C 1F9B 41DB DB8B 9A0C AF47 ] ] ]----- Original Message - ]From: "Daniel Thor Kristjansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ]T

[nycwireless] Mac OS X and wireless

2003-07-29 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
I'm trying to help a Mac OS X user connect to my node but she's getting a lot of dropped packets. I couldn't find any configuration dialog for the wireless parameters such as packet length. I couldn't even change the mtu without using ifconfig and root access. She has an Apple Airport card which I

[nycwireless] OT: anti-glare for LCD

2003-07-29 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
This is a bit off-topic but there was a discussion here earlier where Kevin and I explained why anti-glare filters wouldn't work without significant engineering. Well it turns out we were wrong. Physics didn't change, you still can't use a circularly polarized film to reduce glare. But 3M is maki

Re: [nycwireless] Can Verizon go underground?

2003-07-28 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
You can't do this by storing packets due to the way TCP/IP works and due to the SSL negotiation most e-mail servers require (You could but it would be really ugly.) But it's not hard to do on the application layer. For e-mail the simplest thing to do is just run a local e-mail server and create a

Re: [nycwireless] which 802.11 PCMCIA card to sell

2003-07-27 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
Most definately the ORiNOCO Silver/Gold or a rebranded ORiNOCO Silver/Gold. Most operating systems already have the driver if they have any wireless drivers pre-installed. For range it's on the upper end of the scale and it has held the price/performance lead for years. The difference between the

Re: [nycwireless] "WiFi Hotspots Elude RIAA" Back to the issue ofrecord keeping

2003-07-17 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
I put some aggressive filtering up on my router after getting disconnected do to a RIAA member e-mail. I didn't want to, and it doesn't stop anyone technical from sharing if they want to -- not that it makes much sense with the upstream bandwidth I give them and the limited time they spend near my

Re: [nycwireless] wirless and lightning strikes.

2003-07-09 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
A direct lightning strike can melt soldered joints inside the antenna, and can even vaporize signal wire inside the cable. I doubt there was much damage to the wire because of the EMP arrestor, but the connectors might need to be detached and reattached if they are the soldered type. Those EMP ar

Re: [nycwireless] anti glare solutions (lcd laptops)

2003-07-03 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
h On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Rolan wrote: ]Here are 2 other ways to use LCD's in the sun: ] ]http://www.steves-digicams.com/hoodman_e2000.html ]http://www.compushade.com/laptop.htm ] ]Yes, they are ugly and people will look at you funny, but ]at least he screen will be visible :P ] ]~Rolan

Re: [nycwireless] anti glare solutions (lcd laptops)

2003-07-02 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
This isn't really the right forum for this Q&A but I'll try to explain this a little better. Kevin is right in most respects, LCD's work by having two polarized filters one oriented and one variable, by turning the variable one you control how much of the light from the flouresent bulb in the

Re: [nycwireless] Intel White Paper

2003-06-18 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
I don't think the wireless and secondary display are related and hence this is a little off topic, but a small LCD would allow you to report all kinds of information. You could put something up if there it the laptop found a new AP, or it finished a compile, or your friend is trying to IM you... T

Re: [nycwireless] roaming wifi client software among mixed accesspoint brands?

2003-06-12 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
Most WiFi cards can not monitor other channels while listening on one of them. The Cisco card has some capability to do so but only in promiscuous mode which strains the CPU much more than normal operation. What you are seeing with XP is when you lose the connection with one AP it scans for others

Re: [nycwireless] Repeaters?

2003-06-07 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
Charles, You want to have one client device like the WET11 and one regular AP like a WAP11 or RG-1000. You can set it up to repeat by simply using IP's from the repeated network and passing through DHCP, or you can set it up to have a NATed network 'behind' the AP. The second option is usually

Re: [nycwireless] What Home AP to get?

2003-06-03 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
I would agree that it is not usually practical, but mostly because of the difficult configuration. An old laptop will have no problem staying on 24-7, my 25Mhz 486 laptop never overheated, if you leave in the battery it will be more resilient to power failures than your average AP and the file

Re: [nycwireless] What Home AP to get?

2003-06-02 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
The BEFW11S4 has a high flakyness rate in my experience. I haven't had any of the same flakyness with the WEP11 or the RG-1000. -- Daniel On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Prasad Wimalasiri wrote: ]sorry, it's BEFW11S4: ]http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?grid=33&scid=35&prid=540 ]pretty standard 8

Re: [nycwireless] Qualcomm's view on WiFi vs. CDMA 1X

2003-05-29 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
I have to wonder about his internet usage. I signed up for one of those Sprint PCS free trials last year, I couldn't even find a use for it when it was free. They really had a signal in most places, probably about as good as Sprint PCS voice. But it was head poundingly slow. When you were luck

Re: [nycwireless] Goal Accomplished

2003-05-27 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
I think your analogy is better than some of the others, I find using open access points that aren't explicitly sharing troublesome ethically, but think that a law banning their use would be even more troublesome. There is another way to look at this, 802.11b uses the electromagnetic spectrum, muc

Re: [nycwireless] Goal Accomplished

2003-05-27 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
I think the original analogy was about you painting your car yellow, sticking a medalion on, putting a taxi sign on the roof and then complaining about theft of door hinge use when I jump in the backseat and ask for Broadway and 42th street. Now you may not have known that yellow cars with taxi s

Re: [nycwireless] Disable NAT on Linksys BEFW11S4

2003-04-01 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
You can just plug into the internal network side and leave the WAP port hanging. You also have to disable the DHCP and set the right internal IP for the BEFW11S4 to have it act as a simple bridge. You might have to assign an IP to the WAP side so it doesn't get stuck waiting for an IP on that

Re: [nycwireless] Extending antenna using Cable TV

2003-03-28 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
You can get an adapter but it won't work. TV antennas are designed for frequencies in the Mhz range, your WiFi card operates in the Ghz range. -- Daniel On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, larry wrote: ]Can I get an adapter to plug in the back of my wireless card to my building ]TV antenna? ] ]Is this sort o

[nycwireless] Warning for Cisco 350 client card users

2003-03-24 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
The latest Windows drivers automagically upgrade the firmware on your card. >>> This firmware is not supported in Linux or Macintosh. <<< This means lending your card to a Windows user effectively turns your expensive piece of hardware into a paperweight. You can not download a working firm

[nycwireless] 802.11b DoS exploit..

2003-03-11 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
You can't ever stop a denial of service attack on a shared medium. It doesn't matter whether it's a shared coax ethernet or cables plugged into a hub or wireless. This isn't as scary as it might appear, with physical media you can follow the cable to the offender, with 802.11b you call the FCC. T

Re: [nycwireless] Configuration Issues

2003-02-19 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
Except for the client side this sounds reasonable. If I were on a budget I'd probably use cheaper RG-1000's for the point to point link (with KarlNet client firmware on one end). But, considering the cost of a consultant any time he saves using equipment he's familiar with will probably save you m

Re: [nycwireless] Handling the March Against War

2003-02-13 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
What about video over tcp? Usually when the police start attacking peaceful protesters the confiscate all the video tape. If the video were sent offsite they couldn't do that. I don't think this protest will have any bad nastyness it's too big not to have corporate media coverage. -- Daniel

Re: OT Re: [nycwireless] Re: nycwireless digest, Vol 1 #681 -5 msgs

2003-01-07 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
You can convince everyone that has your e-mail to upgrade from Windows to a Mac, FreeBSD, or Linux ;) I try to always hand out different aliases each time I give out my e-mail so at least I'll know who is infected with CodeRED/Nimbda and then if I get an angry e-mail response to something suppos

Re: [nycwireless] Wireless Antenna Booster

2002-12-25 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
If it's metalic it will probably degrade your signal, increasing noise and reducing reception. If it's just a plastic sticker it won't hurt reception in any noticable way. There's some discussion in the archives.. http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ -- Daniel On Wed, 25 Dec 2

Re: [nycwireless] FW: How To Make Wireless Antenna? (With PringlesCan)

2002-12-18 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
You should be getting a better connection without an antenna. My guess is that the internal card in the Sony Viao is a PRISM based card. Those tend to range from bad to awful in terms of range, esp when they are internal to the laptop. Even so 8 feet is horrible ragne. I would guess that the l

Re: [nycwireless] Cheap?

2002-12-16 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
Is it just me or is there no text on that webpage? Anyway, I think he was refering to Mini-ITX motherboards. $100 including processor is pretty cheap for retail... -- Daniel On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Alan Levy wrote: ]Cheap? Not really. Vivato (phased-array switching) ]costs US$ 10,000, covers 3

Re: [nycwireless] AP suggestions?

2002-12-13 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
For a external antennas + reliability, and less than $300 I'd go with the WAP11. For office use and external antennas the Cisco 350 ruggerized is less than $600, it's reliable and has niceties like power over ethernet. There is also the Lucent AP-1000 which I can't vouch for from personal experien

[nycwireless] Useful web site

2002-12-08 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
I found this while looking through the NYC Skyscraper museum web pages. http://www.metroblocks.com/ It allows you to locate your building in the context of your neighboors. It shows the relative height of nearby buildings, which could be very helpful in creating point-to-point WiFi links. It

Re: [nycwireless] hostap on prism

2002-11-19 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
As far as I know this isn't possible. You would have to port the Linux drivers over to Windows XP. There just aren't that many programmers interested in that platform. If you have some programming skills or want to obtain some, Microsoft will send you their driver development kit for free. Anyone

Re: [nycwireless] Ad-hoc?

2002-11-15 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
Ad-Hoc mode is a way for two laptops to communicate with each other without an AP. It can be less efficient and you don't get the range boosting abilities of an AP located between them, but it is a great replacement for the infrared ports that have been disappearing from laptops in the last few ye

Re: [nycwireless] linksys wap11 range

2002-11-12 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
The WAP 11 is actually a pretty good AP, but the internal airport cards are pretty horrible. You should try changing the channel to 1 or 11, most AP's come from the factory on channel 6 so that's the worst channel to be on if you have any neighboors with WiFi. Make sure the antennas are pointing s

Re: [nycwireless] SpeakEasy.net Wireless sharing policy? NOW: (Covadfriendly to wireless users)

2002-10-22 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
Cloud9 has 768/128Kbps @ $50/month with static IP You can use their dial-up if your DSL is out, or your DSL modem is just turned off. I have the $60/mo, 32 IP service, they do primary &/| secondary DNS for you if you want it. They do require PPPoE, but if you use one of their modems, it's built

Re: [nycwireless] 802.11a antennas

2002-10-20 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
You can make an omnidirecetional antenna for 5.8Ghz, or any other directional antenna you could make for 2.4Ghz, it's just going to be a little less than half as big. The directionality is more like the difference between AM and FM, where AM will usually reach into a short tunnel or over a hill, w

Re: [nycwireless] Accessing nycwireless nodes using a Visor withXircom Springport

2002-10-15 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
The Xircom isn't as powerful as a laptop WiFi card, so you should try an area you already know has good signal. Other than that make sure you have power saving turned off (Advanced button on Client Settings Menu). Make sure you give your client a name, some DHCP servers seem to care. I'm assuming

Re: [nycwireless] Cisco MPI350 Antenna

2002-10-14 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
I have a couple of those pigtails. I'm using them though. I'm almost certain I got em from Michael at personaltelco. -- Daniel <> -- Charlie Gordon On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, katre wrote: ]Hello all, ] ]I recently purchased a Cisco MPI350 miniPCI wireless card for an old ]WebConnect my roommate ha

Re: [nycwireless] Signal boosting (non electrical repeating?)

2002-09-19 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
Well I'm pretty sure these signal boosters for cell phones are a scam. But the idea behind them is that the people designing the antennas for your cell phone made some error in the radiation pattern. That is they thought you'd hold the phone at 30 deg and the tower would be at 10 deg when you're

Re: [nycwireless] Wireless signal interference

2002-09-17 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
I think if you look at the archives you will find some discussion of it. It's pretty simple really, in order not to interfere at all with another Wi-Fi user, space the nodes 5 channels apart. So use channel 1,6,11 in the US. If you get more people than that try to keep them as separated as possib

Re: [nycwireless] Linksys wireless router question

2002-09-12 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
]1) Can I use its 4 ports to link directly to diskless workstations if I only ]have 4 workstations. To increase the number of diskless workstations ]served can I bridge the port via a hub. Yes, & Yes, I don't know how many routes it can store, but it is definately more than 4, probably more th

[nycwireless] new web site?

2002-09-11 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
I just noticed the web page seems to have been updated. When did this happen? There's a broken link on the FAQ page (to nodes), but otherwise it looks really nice. Good work, somebody! -- Daniel <> -- Charlie Gordon -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwi

Re: [nycwireless] LinkSys BEFW11S4 price drop (good/bad?)

2002-09-10 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
I've had one running without problems for 3 months now. I have the older hardware though, I don't know if this is the v2+ hardware. Mine used to have problems until the last firmware I loaded on it. It would only go about a week or two and then freeze up, or run for a week, and then the web serve

Re: [nycwireless] Sky Dalton's plan and Nicolas Negropnte's commentsin WIRED mag 10.10...

2002-09-10 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
Does anyone have a copy of that article? It's showing up blank for me. Other articles on wired seem to work. Did they pull it for some reason? -- Daniel On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, David Hata-Brady wrote: ]A good read if you haven't done so already. Nice comments from Mr. Schmidt ]too! ] ]-- ]NYCwire

Re: [nycwireless] Wireless Security

2002-09-09 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
As mr. bunny noted you can't realy hide the SSID & MAC addresses. They are broadcast in every packet sent and received by the AP. WEP does present a barrier to the casual browser though. You are being more than cautous enough for Time Warner if that's what keeps you up at night. Why not switch to

Re: [nycwireless] AP advice

2002-08-31 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
]Dlink dwl900ap+ vs Linksys WAP11?" I'm pretty sure these two use the same hardware. Neither have very good configuration options, but are very stable with the latest firmware releases. I have a WAP11 and the range is pretty good. The only thing that disappointed me was the client mode, which I n

[nycwireless] Aaron Grogan, seen, heard?

2002-08-29 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
Has anyone seen or heard from him lately? I e-mailed him a couple weeks ago and haven't heard back from him. -- Daniel <> -- Charlie Gordon -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.

[nycwireless] RG-1000 client update

2002-08-25 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
Benny Serbin posted a message on getting an RG-1000 working successfully as a client with the Karlnet software. I just wanted to add that it also works with the cheaper ($80) SEC-4500, it only allows 8 clients, but for most this isn't a big restriction. The other important thing about the Karlne

Re: [nycwireless] Orinoco connectors.

2002-08-21 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
it. How much you want to sell them for? $25 ] ]-Ben ] ] ]- Original Message - ]From: "Daniel Thor Kristjansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ]To: "Ben Serebin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ]Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 11:22 AM ]Subject: Re: [nycwireless] Orinoco

Re: [nycwireless] fun with microwave ovens

2002-08-18 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
I doubt you could modulate the signal as a 802.11b signal, you might be able to modulate it at a lower frequency. But I hope no one would experiment with this in a NYC apartment, you could easily hurt someone other than yourself. And if you isolated your workroom, you'd be even more likely to hur

Re: [nycwireless] Dlink DWL-100AP - $59 after rebate.

2002-08-16 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
Has anyone on this list ever gotten a mail-in rebate check? I've sent in a few of these things and never seen the money. Since then I've pretty much assumed they were all scams. -- Daniel On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Jan Szumiec wrote: ]Hello, ] ]tigerdirect.com sells D-link AP's for $59.99 after $10

[nycwireless] Does Verizon offer broadband wireless?

2002-08-14 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
I have no desire to enter into this flamewar, but I wasn't aware that Verizon even offered high speed wireless. I've used the sprint wireless stuff and it was too slow to be useful and had 2-3 sec latencies. not really useful for ssh unless you want to be reminded of a Citatel BBS with a 300 baud

Re: [nycwireless] Re: NAT Squared ?

2002-08-12 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
I know you probably won't want to go through the hasle of switching ISP's but cloud9 will give you up to 32 IP's so you might be able to avoid NAT altogether. It's $60 for the basic network service with up to 32 IP's, assigned in sizes of 1+NAT, 2, 4, 8, 16, & 32 depending on your needs. -- Dani

[nycwireless] Long distance link established

2002-08-11 Thread Daniel Thor Kristjansson
Between 14th & B and E. Broadway and Clinton. If you're near either of those locations we're interested in expanding the network. This link runs through some trees and side swipes some buildings so we're both using pretty heavy duty antennas 21dB and 19dB resp. Joseph Skoler did most of the caref

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