On 21-Jun-2007, Larry wrote:

wrote in :

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/0..._record_2.html

Wow....Love those big beams and MOUNTAIN TOPS! Lucky for him he's in
backwater Venezuela where there must be very few wifi broadcasts going
on, otherwise he'd not have stood a chance over the noise.....(c;

Now that airliners allow you to run your laptop in your seat, see what I
mean by "noise". Go to:
http://www.stumbler.net
and download Net Stumbler, a sort of scanner/logger/map interface
software to search out wifi nodes. Install it on your laptop. As you're
taxiing down the runway, boot it up and watch what happens as the plane
lifts off over the city. Net Stumbler will go berserk above 100' as the
plane climbs out until you get to about 3000' where the distance to the
little routers is too attenuated to hear them any more. You'll get
thousands of hits per minute! That's the noise he DIDN'T have for this
feat. They were too far up the mountain to receive the noise coming in
from the city below....(c;

Larry
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I have Net Stumbler, just driving around here (LA county) it is nuts. It
seams every house has WIFI!

Joe N.