I'm still c..c..c..cold
brrrrrr
Anyway, I am home now.
That was fun
(but cold
)
All the Friday night drunks wondering what it was I was doing standing an O2 store with a 'child size laptop'
I posted from a 720, Clint, just for you I took Pinkie.
There are NO residential WAP's in the South East of England that are unencrypted. I'm convinced of this!
I could not find a single one.
Pub's, petrol stations, fast food joints all had them. Lots of offices and shops - I had one or two "Back offices" - people need to get imaginative with their SSID's... to shame... "BTACCESSPOINT", "BOFFICE"
oh and it was cold...
The 802.11b adapter is a Pretec CompactWLAN - as in the HCL - I installed the driver from the HCL, it worked first time and went and detected my next door neighbours encrypted WAP.
Out on my war drive the built in scanner was useful - although you have to manually press the rescan button if you want to get anything in good measure as you're going past.
When I could park near a open WAP, I had to get a bit closer to get in range, but it saw the AP, I switched off the WEP and two second later it was registering against their DHCP server. Unfortunately that one didn't offer me a DNS server, so I walked up closer to the Exchange, and found another one... and couldn't for the life of me get it to connect.
It took me a couple of min to realise that when I moved away from the O2 AP, it hadn't released the IP info. So I popped the card, put it back and bingo. I posted the above and ran back to my nice warm car.
Nick, you have to go on a war drive, it's fun… more fun if I hadn't actually been driving the car at the same time mind...
Did I mention that it was cold?