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> Just remember, if the laptop isn't going too far, a good length of Ye |
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> Olde Cat5e is a much cheaper solution. That being said... |
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Changes the possible security implications too... |
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> Yeah, I picked up a great Orinoco (branded as Enterasys) at |
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> Rokland.com last month for roughly $50. Atheros chipset, 802.11a/ |
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> SuperA/b/b+/g/SuperG... very nice. It works in Windows (with the |
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> driver CD), Mac OS X (with the shareware OrangeWare driver--totally |
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> worth the $15 shareware fee) and, naturally, Linux (with MADWIFI). |
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> It picks up Channels 1 through 14, and can put out up to 100 mW of |
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> power (40 mW on A networks). |
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I forgot about Enterasys and Atheros. The Orinoco-based cards have |
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power output of around 24mW and the sensitivity is right around -83dB |
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which I've found works well in most situations. I usually see about |
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3.5mbps of throughput when "connected" at 11mbps. Could be better but |
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it gets the job done. Btw, I think YDI (Terabeam) still sells an |
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Orinoco-based card. They've got really good support should you need |
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it. |
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> There's no antenna jack, though, but I hear most PCMCIA Orinocoes can |
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> be modded to include some kind of external jack; I'm not that |
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> desperate for power, but with dial-up at home, I might do that mod |
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> and build a yagi antenna, get in my car, and... well, you get the |
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> idea. :-) |
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I've got three or four of the cards back from the days when they were |
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still made by Lucent and with the proper pigtail you can connect an |
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external antenna. In fact I used to use Orinoco PC cards with a PCI |
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adapter to deliver high-speed access to folks around here and they |
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worked quite well, then the telco showed up with DSL but that's |
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another story. As for the newer cards, I believe the Proxim cards can |
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be modded by opening the antenna housing on the card to get to the |
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antenna connector. If you want to go to an external antenna check |
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with YDI, I think they still make PC cards with external antenna |
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connectors. |
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> Still haven't had any luck with KisMAC (the OS X port of Kismet), |
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> though. It finds my card but doesn't detect my wireless network... |
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> I'll figure it out eventually. |
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Maybe the drivers don't support monitor mode? That's what I ran into |
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with Linux but that was only a kernel patch away and my experience |
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with KisMAC is exactly zero... |
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