Article: SoCalFreeNet.org believes free Wi-Fi means greater access for everyone

2005-03-18 Thread Lee Barken
hi, Just wanted to share an article from the North Park Times about community wireless activities over in San Diego... we don't have an online link to the article, but the author provided this copy and permission to share. It's a good read about SoCalFreeNet and our activities. BTW- We're

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Hidden SSID?

2005-01-09 Thread Lee Barken
hi Ryon, With a hidden SSID, your APs won't get picked up by Netstumbler, but may get picked up by Kismet (if the attacker happens to be listening during an association). Seems like security be obscurity to me... in the long run you'll probably cause more help desk issues then you gain by

Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Battery packs for proxim APs

2004-02-10 Thread Lee Barken
hi Sean, I have been happily using a statpower portawattz device for years... 18 amp hour battery, coupled with a 300 watt ac/dc invertor. nice package.. i bought mine for around $100... http://www.xantrex.com/products/product.asp?did=131 Good Luck! -Lee On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Sean Che

Educause 2003

2003-11-11 Thread Lee Barken
Dear List-- It was a pleasure getting to meet so many of you in person last week at the Educause conference in Anaheim. I particularly enjoyed the Constituent Group with Dewitt Latimer and the Curent Issues Roundtable with Emilio DiLorenzo. Here are a few URLs which some people were asking

[SDWUG] Article: College WLANs put to the test (fwd)

2003-11-04 Thread Lee Barken
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 16:26:48 -0800 (PST) From: Lee Barken [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SDWUG] Article: College WLANs put to the test College WLANs put to the test Source: http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1103campuswlan.html Each