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IntellAgent
Phone/Fax 416 410 7800
spiro@intellagent.ca

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Well,

After a year hiatus I decided to reinvent wirelessbandit.com

It is up and running and we will start posting new content soon including a Google Map version of our maps db... A few more things to fix... But I just wanted you all to know first!

Edited by author 09-21-2005 03:44 PM
Folks,

In case you are wondering the ISP that hosted wirelessbandit.com had a catastrophic failure and the website went down about a month or so ago... In order to run the site it will take some cash and time so I am looking for both.

Is there anyone experienced with Movable Type 3.1 that wants to rebuild the site and run it on a reliable host? I am happy to work with you and share Google Ad funds which amounted to roughly $50 US per month... Maintaining the site involves about 5-10 hours per month.

In order to host the site I am taking donations of $20 minimum at wb1@wirelessbandit.com

Sorry folks, other projects take precedence and I need some help ...

-WB1

what happened to wireless bandit? my old bookmark no longer works (http://wirelessbandit.nerdsunderglass.com/). did it move?

Yup. Use smtp1.sympatico.ca for the SMTP server. You may need authenticate with your Bell username and password too...

Hi,

I'm using a Bell account in a free wireless area and can't send emails - any idea how I can get around it? Are there any free smtp servers etc?

Thanks

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Your comment section on the website is not working so I'm posting this here in response to the browser market share piece posted a few days earlier.


Firefox has a google searchbar and has many extensions, IE has a beta MSN toolbar. IE can use a google toolbar also. Fine. More importantly you do realize that IE is a horrible browser full of security flawws, lacks tabbed browsing ad blocking and so forth? What makes you think this is a fad besides the weak and logically inconsistent argument that the MSN toolbar will bring users back?

I'm on a Mac so I get a half a dozen good browsers to choose from such as Safari, Camino, Firefox, and my personal favorite Omniweb. On Windows it's IE (sucks), Firefox (pretty good), Opera (bloated, ugly), and Netscape/Mozilla (bloated). Firefox is at 5%+ and climbing fairly fast. IE hasn't been updated in years and probably won't be updated until Longhorn (if it ever makes it out the door) or possibly never. Microsoft can stop developing a product that they give away for free and it can let other people work for free to build a browser.

The only question is why it took this long for people to realize IE sucks. Now when they realize that Windows sucks too I'll be happy. Although I do realize that Windows can be secured and made a decent operating system if you have knowledge, tools, and time, both OS X and some of the various forms of Linux are far better at most tasks. Except for games of course, but that's why consoles exist IMHO.

Edited by author 12-07-2004 08:41 PM
Does anyone know if there are any CF WIFI cards available for the likes of PPC's that have an external antenna jack so one can plug a cantenna into the PPC?
And if so where are they available, If got a IPAQ and was curious about this.
Also some neat free software is WiFiFoFum available for PDA's, its also got Streethawk which after detection connects to the AP's and attempts to get to google.com, it then informs you which AP's are open.
WiFiFoFum also can work with GPS.

Also if not what kind of CF to PCMCIA adaptors are available for a HP IPAQ 2200?

Cheers

Sheldon

Edited by author 11-15-2004 08:26 AM
Hi,

I generally have no problem connecting to various hotspots on my notebook, but I am hitting a wall at one listed spot: the Bloor Street Diner at Bay and Bloor. I see people connected, but I can't get on. I am using Windows XP -- nothing special. When I try to connect, it searches and searches without picking up an Ip address. Finally it says, limited or no connectivity and I can't get on.

Any help is appreciated.

Edited by author 11-09-2004 01:16 PM
I will know by Wednesday November 10th, im not going to work today, im mapping a War path to chek most caps.

Hi KreeperZulu4,

Thanks for your notes. Why don't you send your spots along and share with others? Our mapping system maps all spots and people know if they are pay for or free after they click on the details. Have you tried the mapping system off the right hand side?

The idea is that we are running an independent, cooperative, Toronto based hotspot service. We post all spots that are opened and CONFIRMED by real people as useful. We also delist spots that are CONFIRMED to be closed. So, do you have a confirmation that all of Timothy's spots have been closed down. That is possible since Spotnik was running them...

its like the satellite debate, its unclear or non existant?
then its basically still ok. i found more great spots by the way.

Kreeper, this site used to be like that but since the laws about use of people's wi-fi signals seem to be unclear, its focus has shifted to wi-fi advertised for use by the public even if it is pay for use.

Edited by author 11-07-2004 03:53 PM
Why post Caps on the map that cost money like the spotnik, dosent that defeat the purpose of Wireless Bandit, frankly if you pay your a wireless dufus. is Bandit just a catchy name?

Ill do some driving up in the duffrin and lawrence area, im currently compiling a list of good residential spots to go to. ive got some good spots so far, and ive logged about 3 hours of cruising at 5 kph.

Edited by author 11-06-2004 06:26 PM
All the Caps on the maps that are timothy's cafe do not work. i talked to an employee and they say they dont have a clue so, i dont know who posted caps that they have it. but it dosent work

Wiggle.what? I cant find their site...

spiro@intellagent.ca
< replied-to message removed by QT >

You should check out wiggle they have a lot of info on gps mapping aps.

thanks wb ill email him now

The person you want is bsonne@ncircle.com -- He provided the awesome map from kismet... It is indeed an excellent map...

I'ld like to know how it was done, I've played around with Kismet but not the maps. Maybe if I get it done this weekend I'll have a chance to place around with it. Have to reinstall Linux, the copy I have on my laptop is really ficked for some reason.

Hey man could this guy that submited that awesome map do a little wardriving in my area a little bit more north west and see if he can pick up my network i submitted at 3000 dufferin st. in the lawrence and dufferin area?

Thanks

Ok, I've installed my wireless card, I've installed netstumbler, I've picked up some wireless networks (some with protection, some not). What next? How do I connect to these networks for internet, etc.? Thanks!

Where are all the Sesame Networks hotspots located? I could not find any details on their website.

I am beginning to find a number of Toronto businesses (lawyers in particular) providing courtesy WiFi to there customers using a service from Sesame Networks. You use your cell number to get a SMS delivered password. Otherwise access is free. Real cool and it works well.

For those that are attending the next Wi-Fi Meet-Up listen carefully!

sPaHa is no longer a Spotnik hotSpot. If you would like to move the meetup to another Spotnik hotSpot, let me know and I will provide free 24 hour codes for the meeting so that everyone can log on.

Could you tell me how to setup a mail block? I would really appreciate it.
Spiro Ioannidis
Communications Director
IntellAgent and Stealth Wireless
416 410 7800
spiro@intellagent.ca
< replied-to message removed by QT >

Yes, my wirelessbandit@rogers.com acct is protected by mailblocks. If you email me and your email is not on my whitelist you will get a challenge email asking you to confirm you are human by typing in a number from a GIF. I'm sorry if that is confusing, but this is how I manage to get rid of the 200+ or so spam emails I get every day.

seems like that email had anti-spam enabled or something anyways its been confirmed. You should have the email now.

Email sent please email me back or post here for confirmation.

Alright most of the info was posted here anyway.

Dude, email me at wirelessbandit@rogers.com with your details, ok?

Did this site just die?

If so can someone give me a current wifi site where i can submit my AP.

Sorry i just noticed i should have contacted the adming to submit my ap. Should i do that?

I thought this was better because alot more ppl could test it out maybe faster if the admin doesnt have time?

Can Someone see if they can access my hotspot. There is no one in my area that is offering anything so I wanna provide something for everyone here at lawrence and dufferin.

Location: the grey apartment bulding at: 3000 Dufferin St.
-Just south of Lawrence and Dufferin

Map- "http://www.mapquest.ca/maps/map.adp?countr...de=&search=++Search++" (without quotes)

Sure why not, but aren't going to sell the server that way.

but can you get the signal fom down below?

They aren't going to provide it for free.

It's like $30 for a long haul and $15 for a for a shorter haul.

no im talking about the free internet from the boing airlines

Sure why not, there are a few internet providers that are via satellite, just get ready to pay big time. Satellite Internet isn't cheap.

http://www.broadbandontario.com/

Based on this link: http://www.broadbandontario.com/assets/pdf...tial%20RatePlan.pdf

Get ready to fork over about $2250Cdn for the first year and then about $1150 each yr afterwards

Via trains also provide internet, but it's done via Bell Mobilitys X1 service. (Using Bells Cell towers).

so is the signal catachable from down below with another satelite

Still there:

http://digiital.blogspot.com/

Hey where did your blogspot page go, digiital ?

Yes Satellite. If you read it you will see how it works.

Boeing = Satellite Manufacture

yes i know that but where is the signal coming from?

is it via satelite?

where are these airplanes getting there wifi signal from?

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories....y+17+2004,+04:14+PM

While going to pickup my little one at daycare, I was able to wardrive the MC'D's at Millcreak and Erinmills from across the street.

1. Free hotspot in the lobby of Le Germaine Hotel, Mercer Street.
2. Free hotspot at Panorama restaurant, top of Manulife Center.
3. Free hotspot in the patio of Lettieri Cafe in St. Lawrence Market.

McDonalds must use special equipment to control how the signal is broadcast maybe? I can't even find their signal in the Mississauga store unless I'm in the center of the place, and it rarely worked outside. Then again they never have coupons either. :-(

Same type of problem with the McDonalds on Yonge St. They have a patio but the first thing the manager told me when I asked for an access card was that their wi-fi didn't work outside.

Robert,

This hotspot is already listed and confirmed:

http://wirelessbandit.nerdsunderglass.com/archives/000549.html

I know someone who used it recently and was disappointed it was only active in the McCafe and not in the regular McDonald's 'classic' food part of the restaurant.

Hi could someone check out this (possible) AP, I don't go anywhere near there, and then get back to me or post, megacalm@hotmail.com. Thanks! Robert


McDonalds
Woodside Square McDonald's
1571 Sandhurst Scarbourough

here's a link to a map:

http://maps.msn.com/(e3bigr45vkmdcibbp02am...c+Scarborough+ON|L1

what happened to netwireless? their website is now empty (http://www.netwireless.ca/). i can't seem to find them on the list of roaming partners on fatport's site, either... nor in their hotspot list. i went to the second cup at 730 yonge (@ charles), which used to have netwireless, and they said they didn't have it any more.

A new Orkut group... Pls join when you can...

http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=32855

Future Shop now sells WiFi detectors for $29.00
http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetai...catid=&newdeptid=18

i haven't had a chance to try it, but i've been told that the rhino bar & grill (1249 Queen W, a block and a half west of dufferin) now has signs in its windows touting "free wireless internet."

t0x0rg,

Check out this entry on the blog

http://wirelessbandit.nerdsunderglass.com/archives/000232.html

Some good reviews...

Has anyone bought one of those Wi-fi detectors by Smart ID? http://www.smartid.com.sg/prod01.htm How useful is it?

Look up about making a Yagi antenna, or modifying a dish for 2.4GHz. They're actually quite easy to make.

I need help becase im new to wifi and i dont know how to connect my PC to a free hot spot. So i was wondering if i need to put a big antenna on top of house because thats what one guy told me if i want to get a signal from 1 or those 4 locations

what are you trying to do? exactly....

trust me what im trying to do is not illegal the service is 100% free but i dont know how to get a signal and what i need

bla is right, its totally illegal to piggyback off of someones signal. Others will tell you thats bullshit, but look at the satelite industry. Why is that illegal and we can see it? If you check the canadian laws with computers and networks, you will see that any unauthorized access to a network, and wifi is considered one, is unlawful. Im not here to tell you not to do it,just dont get caught..... triangulate and eradicate, that is the RCMP and CRTC strategy on radio pirating and war driving.

What are you talking about the hotspot is free so how am i stealing it

And you expect us to tell you how to steal someones Wifi?

anyone please

opps i forgot to post a link to the pic of the map sorry here it is

http://www.geocities.com/wifixyz2000/

need some help here please.

at the link below you will find the pic of the map generated for wifi spots around my home area using a scale of 4km i managed to find 4 hotspots at the 4km distance so thats good. so now whats the next step needed to take to get access to these spots do i need to put a big antenna on top of my house or something.

please help

ps- the box is the area i live in

Oh, you mean like a huge country-wide network canvas ? Count me out.

what part of wifi setup didnt you understand? hotspots.....lots of them

What exactly do you mean by "WiFi setup" ?

i also go by icq 572 2712

Who here wants to be part of Wi-Fi setup in canada. You must know what your doing and have a lifetime interest in it. If your interested, keep posting here, and i will get back to you.

nike

problem update: i am able to connect fine to a different netwireless hotspot. that was odd-- an anomoly at two separate hotspots, two days in a row. i should go back to those spots and see if they work now. perhaps something needs rebooting? or just a weird fluke.

I'm having problems connecting to Fatport and NetWireless hotspots. I think the problem started when I installed the newest drivers for this (crappy) wifi card (SMC 2635W). I think I might go back to the old drivers to test out this hypothesis (which is too bad, because the new drivers seem to help out with the DHCP problems I was having)... I still hope the old drivers are on the SMC web site (if not, I hope I have the old driver installer still).

I used Ethereal to snoop on my network traffic, and it's full of "ICMP Destination Unreachable" messages when doing DNS queries. I don't have these problems connecting to, say, Bell AccessZone (where I am now).

Anyone else having problems connecting to Fatport or Netwireless?

Edited by author 12-02-2003 11:29 AM
Toronto and GTA Hotspots

Well my request for locations in the West end was under-whelming so I am submitting a link to my own list. I like to think of this as an example of what could be, easy to read, identify, and understand. Continued thanks to those who are posting locations. Keep visiting for updates and please send me your comments from the "Contact Me" link.

http://megacalm.aipotu.nl/toronto_and_area_hotspots.html

megacalm@hotmail.com

Looking at some of the comments made on Slashdot, I found this one dead on.


DISCLAIMER: Not knowing Canadian regulations, my post treats this event from a U.S. perspective only, as it relates to wireless networks here. I'm addressing the network access issue only, not defending kiddie porn, driving naked, or driving in the wrong direction.

As I see it, there was no theft of "communications". He didn't break into any computers, nor block/alter/view data coming in and out of them. There is no indication that he did anything to bypass security measures of either the network or the machines on it. There is no indication that he did nor intended any harm to the network or its users.
He used net connectivity, apparently with all hardware functioning as designed and configured. It is the operator of the network that is responsible for configuration including access permissions. Many run hot spots intentionally, some through ignorance. In either case, the host is functioning as an ISP. What's relevant here is regulation of the wireless access to the ISP.

In the U.S., 802.11b hardware is allowed unlicensed use of spectrum, as regulated by part 15 of the F.C.C. rules. Part 15 products are required to include a notice: "Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interferrence, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undersired operation." Harmful interference refers to that affecting licensed communications only. Are there licensed users of this spectrum? Yes.

All ham radio licensees (except Novices) are authorized by the FCC Rules, Part 97.301(a) to use all operating modes in the 2390-2450 MHz band. 802.11b equipment is not allowed to interferre. A ham could reasonably ask anyone using 802.11b gear to stop operating if they cannot otherwise correct an interferrence problem (typically by changing channels, lowering power, reducing antenna height, changing location, using a directional antenna etc). The 802.11b gear operator has no regulatory protection against interference from the ham operator, other 802.11b users, or even microwave ovens which operate in-band at 2450 MHz.

In summary, 802.11b gear is unprotected from interference, and the operator of such gear is on their own to try to make it work as desired, with no guarantee of success.
802.11b hardware is being used as designed when people, known to the host or not, access open networks. It isn't communications theft nor is it tresspassing.

Made it to Slashdot.

http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/11/22/19362...=137&tid=193&tid=99

And more on this big story...

http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id...c-a9d6-c2d4e375fb64

Oh man the BS just flys on this one:

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/stor...848946/?hub=SciTech

I'm sure we will hear more about this:

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http://www.680news.com/news/local/a...121_165005_4000

====================

Man steals wireless internet signal to download child porn
November 21, 2003 - 4:50 pm
By: Anne Winstanley


It's a first for Toronto Police, and its not good. Police are issuing a warning for anyone who has wireless internet because those signals extend beyond the four walls of your home, and can now be used by child pornographers driving down the street.

It all began on Wednesday when a man was caught driving the wrong way on a one way street in the west end of the city. He was half naked and had a laptop in the passenger seat.

Det.-Sgt. Paul Gillespie says the man doing something called war-driving, he was accessing an internet signal from a wireless network based in a nearby address. He was downloading large amounts of child pornography using a program called Kazaa.

A search of the man's home in Delhi, near Simcoe, has yielded hundreds of thousands of computer child porn images. Gillespie says this is the first child porn arrest Toronto Police have made tied to war-driving.

Police have some advice for users of wireless networks, activate the security features that came with the software, and don't place your router near a window or outside wall.

================

http://www.pulse24.com/News/Top_Sto...21-016/page.asp

Nothing on their site. It was that segment I did a few months back and they only aired it 2 weeks ago. They did a number on editing with some of my comments I made.

I'll private email you the link.

The only reason I'm not posting the link is that I don't have tons of bandwidth.

Anyone else want it? Email me. Go to my blog
http://digiital.blogspot.com

and click the email link. Anti Spam measures.

I didn't see the Toronto1 spot. On their website at www.toronto1.tv they have seemingly nothing on it... Any links?

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thanks!

Hey folks been alittle while since I've posted.

Anyways I've gone ahead and started a mailing list for GTA Wardrivers.

Have a look at my blog for more details:
http://digiital.blogspot.com

What else has been going on. Built a new antenna, works MUCH better then the other 'mobile' antenna had had built(details on the blog).

Also anyone else see the Wardriving Segment on the TV Channel - Toronto1?

Followup to /m102:

WiFi-enabled Second Cup locations will give you a free 4-hour access card for the price of a coffee! It seems the cards can only be used once per account (introductory offer), but one could simply move to a new account once the time has expired. Creating a new Hotmail address seems to be the only effort needed to start using another of those cards.

Needless to say, I've been hoarding cards like crazy, buying a small coffee-to-go each time. The downside: I'm developing a taste for Second Cup coffee...

hi please send locations to megacalm@hotmail.com. Thanks. Robert

Hi I'm compiling a list of hot-spots for this area. Wondering if anyone can supply me with theirs, that is places where one can sit down and surf, for free. In a few days I'll post my list and the updated list. Thanks!

Drew,

Did you try our map from the front page. Entering Don Mills for the street and Toronto and doing some pecking around I found this spot just east of 404 and 401

Timothy's on Conusmers Road

http://wirelessbandit.nerdsunderglass.com/archives/000298.html

Give it a go and let us know how it turns out.

I'll assume your in Toronto.

Try Sayal(http://www.sayal.com/) and also check their Mississuaga location in that stripmall where they are located, you will also find another 3-4 electronic stores as well.

Need help...

Where can I find N Type Connectors in Toronto?

Active Surplus dont have it. Also went to a surplus store on Bathurst&Bloor they dont have any.

Help...anyone...

Anybody know of a wifi coffee shop in the suburbs?

All of the ones on any list that I can find are downtown. I live in North York (Don Mills area) and would love to find a coffee shop somewhere around home that I can go to and use wifi.. I don't mind paying; I was just introduced to the idea of coffee-shop wifi while in the USA last weekend.

Thanks,

 - awh

The easiest way to submit a hotspot is to email wirelessbandit@rogers.com and I will post them. I'll take a look at the fatport listings. There are several new hotspots that opened (esp with Spotnik) that take a while to enter. Anyone wanna help?

not all the fatport locations are on the wireless bandit maps.

here's the toronto list:

http://www.fatport.com/locations/list_name?city=toronto

(i'm typing this from the croissant tree at 199 Bay St)

i don't know what the best way to submit access points is... anyway, i could have sworn someone mentioned this one already, but i couldn't find it when searching the wireless bandit blog entries. the food court in the atrium on bay (dundas st w & yonge) has a fatport (commercial) hotspot, from the croissant tree cafe that's there. note that the mall itself is open a lot later than the cafe is.

Hey guys,

Just sharing a story with you. Was about 3 weeks go, last night of school (Academy of Design in the CBC building) and I had 2 hours to wait until I could catch a bus home (bout 11pm at night) and I wound up spending it curled up underneath the Harveys Access Zone (with the pay phones) in Union station with my laptop in my lap, sitting next to the only working power outlet I could find in the entire concourse. 2hrs of surfing, playing Starwars Galaxies and chatting to MSN, begging a ride from friends. Turned out to be a pretty decent time, a heck of a lot better then waiting in the rain watching the bums beg nickels.

Thought it would be a good story, basically my fondest moment of putting WiFi to use.

Edited by author 10-11-2003 09:45 AM
digiital/semen:
For some reason, I can't get Knoppix STD working on my thinkpads. I tried it on my R31 and T30 and on both occassions I cannot get Knoppix to boot properly. When I boot from a CD, I can hear the CD spinning but the screen stays black. I know I burned it correctly and downloaded it correctly -- verified with their md5 checksum. Any ideas?

i've used the netwireless hotspot at the second cup at 179 college street. it was great. i asked about it at the counter and they gave me a free 4-hour trial card. also the rates seem much more reasonable than spotnik, at $4.95 for a single hour (90 day expiration), $6.95 for 4 hours (4 hour expiration), $9.95 for a 24-hour period, $34.95 for a month.

No, this is just in console mode. The what you're talking about is for XF86. It runs fine in Konsole, Xterm, rxvt and others, but before i start X, it's like that. shift+pgdown won't even scroll down.

I forget off the top of my head, but when the CD starts there is a option like F1 or F2 for advanced features, go into that and chance your screen(force it) into something like 1024x768 or something in those lines.

arrsome. i just got my new thinkpad actually, took off XP, stuck knoppix-std on it, and it's running great apart from one thing. When i'm in console, i can never see the bottom 10 lines on the screen, it scrolls, but my screen doesn't follow. If anybody's got a fix, i'd love to hear it.

I've used STD, works really well with my IBM thinkpad. With Orinoco card.

Hey, anybody here used Knoppix-STD ? comes with patched orinoco drivers, AirSnort, Kismet, Ethereal and just all around ereet security tools. I've burned myself a copy, I'm just waiting for my new laptop to arrive. Or, any other good distro's like that apart from WarBSD and WarLinux ?

Wirelessbandit, for the Second Cup link, check out http://www.netwireless.ca.

That's great. Any links? I'd like to integrate the new locations into our new mapping system... Thanks Mach1!

Wireless Internet Served @ Second Cup
Starting September 8th, Second Cup will be offering wireless Internet service in 12 cafe locations. Ten WiFi "Hot Spots" will be available in Toronto and two in Calgary through Netwireless. This exciting new technology will allow our guests with WiFi equipped laptops and PDAs to access the Internet as they enjoy their lattés and muffins. This service will be expanded to additional Second Cup cafes in the future.

Since 802.11g is backwards compatible to 802.11b, it has to slow everything down, since the .11b card won't be able to stick with the .11g/54mb speeds. So, in theory the network would be slowed down to the max .11b/22MB which would defeat the purpose of using .11g. You could setup an .11b AP to handle those clients seperatly as an alternative to slowing everything down. Now, i've never used 802.11g before, so flame me if i am wrong.

was wondering if anybody knew about whether if you use a 11g card, and the service is 11g as well, obviuosly you'd run at 11g speed.
but then i read smoewhere that since 11g is backwards compatible, if someone else on the network is using 11b, then the everybody on the network is using 11b.
does anywbody know if this is true?

Man it's dead here.

Check out my blog, been keeping busy.
http://digiital.blogspot.com/

No, sounded good when it first came out, but I'd be thinking you'd throw your power-usage right off the charts and consume your battery in quick-time, if you're using a PCMCIA card in AP-mode like I do on my laptop, so yeah.

Have any of you tried FakeAP?
http://www.blackalchemy.to/project/fakeap/

"If one access point is good, 53,000 must be better.

Black Alchemy's Fake AP generates thousands of counterfeit 802.11b access points. Hide in plain sight amongst Fake AP's cacophony of beacon frames. As part of a honeypot or as an instrument of your site security plan, Fake AP confuses Wardrivers, NetStumblers, Script Kiddies, and other undesirables."

I re-read all of Airopeek's Agere driver how-to's and installed their version of the driver. Good news: I got airopeek to work with their driver. Bad news: Orinoco's Client Manager software no longer works. I really like those 5 green bars on my taskbar. :(

Oops. My bad. XP *is* supported by Airopeek NX.

Semen,
I don't think Airopeek NX supports XP. I've got an Avaya card running on XP and I was just reading the help docs. Too bad my card isn't supported. I guess I'll stick with Kismet.

Ya we are back!

Ok, heh. I am talking about Windows. I stopped dealing with Linux a LONG time ago. Ok, now...The little BiQuad antenna gets 12dBi ?! Hell, i'm gonna have to make me one of those. Now, there are cards that openly support monitor / promiscuous mode on Windows, such as the Cisco 3x0 (340, 350) series, and pretty much any PrismII based card, but it is extremely difficult to actually get these cards into the RFMON mode. AiroPeek NX has special drivers that will put a Hermes card (Orinoco, Compaq WL110, etc...) into monitor mode and capture the traffic. I want to be able to stick the card into monitor mode and capture traffic, so now I have to get a new card, that supports it or upgrade to Windows ME, 2K or XP. I'd rather get a new card, so right now i am looking for a card that uses the CW10.sys driver as I know how to put it into monitor mode. If ANYBODY has or knows of a card that uses the Prism chipset and CW10.sys or prismnds.sys drivers plz let me know. Yeah, the theme for my Win95 desktop is from QNX which i am dual-booting. I've got WindowBlinds with a custom skin, and a qnx wallpaper i already had. that's about it, i love this board. kthnx.

Man your confusing the hell out of me. I thought you wanted windows not Linux. Anyways. For Linux I followed the instructions found on: http://airsnort.shmoo.com/orinocoinfo.html

To check to see if the drivers are working do a
# iwpriv

You should see in the list MONITOR.

To start Kismet off I do a :

# kismet_monitor -H ; kismet

that starts the monitoring/scan and loadup the kismet front end.

Ok back to the antenna. I did some testing with the satellite dish, but to tell you the truth, it wasn't as good as I thought it was going to be. There is a fellow in my area with a open AP which I use to "TEST" my connection and signal. With the satellite dish I would get about max 16/17 SNR with the BiQuad it self, I get max 11/12 SNR.
I might have to do alittle more testing. But I will tell you one thing for sure. That BiQuad is one HOT antenna!!! The cantenna I have isn't as good. But again it's a LARGE can and I think it's alittle on the big side for wifi(2.4ghz) so I might have to try a soup can or something in those lines.

As for the gain I'm not sure, but i think it's in the 25db range. The BiQuad is about 12db but I think for some reason it's more. Or the satellite dish isn't 25 or anywhere close to it. Not based on my tests tonight.

Your page is interesting, how did you get to change the theme? Looks good, I thougth it was a linux distro :) Sure doesn't looklike Windows :)

And that was bad in changing the SSID! hahaha, the fellow in my area has his AP WIDE WIDE open, he's even left the AP's PW default. I've gone in a looked but haven't done any changes.

Edited by author 06-17-2003 02:47 PM
No, i am not talking about using netstumbler or any other 'active' scanning, i'm talking about passive scanning like Kimet does when it issues 'monitor mode' or 'promiscuous mode' to the card, and will capture all RF 802.11 frames in the air. Hm...about those parabolic dishes, how much dBi do they get ? I built a little cantenna out of those mini-cans of pasta sauce and it works awesome, i don't know what it gains, but it works like a charm. anyways, i have 2 pages i maybe some of you would be interested it that i made a few months ago : http://sinking-feeling.com/~semen/
kbye.

I think I've asked this before but can't seem to find it. But what are are you using? The Gold I have I didn't have to do anything, in XP atleast I just run Netstumbler and away it goes.

Btw: check out my blog for Tuesday: http://digiital.blogspot.com/

Yes, but what did you use to stick you card into monitor more, and then capture the 802.11 frames ? I will put 98 on it, if you know that it's possible, and that i find drivers for AiroPeek NX or any other Hermes Chipset based 802.11 sniffer that'll run on Win9x. If not, i'm going to install (shudder) ME, cause 2K/XP probably won't fit on my 1.33gig laptop, that's it, thanks.

I don't think I did anything funky. I just installed and away I went. If I did get any drivers. It was for the card from Dell. I also did the hack firmware upgrade on the Dell TrueMobile card I had to 8.xx I forget the exact version. The hack makes the card think it's a TRUE and no rebranded orinico.

If I stick 98 on this laptop, what drivers would I use for monitor mode ? The only Windows drivers are for 2K/XP (WildPakets AiroPeek NX) that i know of, and these obviously won't work on 98. You say you've used it ? What was the setup 'n all ? If you claim it to work, i'll stick 98 on it and try it out. Thanks.

Edited by author 06-15-2003 09:06 PM
PS: I've started my own blog, nothing amazing, just somewhere to add my .02 cents worth.

http://digiital.blogspot.com/

wirelessbandit1:
East end, thats really out of the way atleast for me. Thats a haul from Brampton.

Semen:
Windows 95? Well that might be one of the reasons your not getting the card into monitor mode. If you can install atleast 98, I believe I used it for a day or so in 98. But right now I'm running on XP.
As for the linux stuff, when you do a 'iwpriv' do you see the option for monitor? I not then your haven't compiled the drivers correctly. Where you located? We might be able to meetup and I can try and help you out.

...To add onto my other post, I am thinking of getting a Prism card, what version chipset should i get ? 2, 2.5 or 3 ? I basically want it, because after everything i have done, I am unable to get my orinoco into monitor mode in Windows 95. So, if there are any recommendations i'd gladly take them into consideration. I might buy a Linksys WPC-11 and use the 'monitor' mode app from Sniph, and then just use Ethereal to capture frames, but i'm not even sure if that will work, so suggestions are welcome. thanks.

Yeah, i'm running it as root. Trepia kinda sucks, i've had it for quite a long time. Meh, that's about it.

No I didn't go -- something came up at home... But I gotta tell you guys, the Meetup locations suck. How about we meet at a place we know has wireless? Is anyone in the east end? Beach area? Let me know if you want to meet near Grabba Jabba which has wireless (albeit Spotnik)... Or give me another idea for a good location...

Wasn't able to make the meetup. Anyone go?

As for the error your getting, are you running Kismet as Root or as a normal user? Because I haven't been able to get it going as a normal user and only root works. So try that.

Well, i've got kismet "working" on a laptop without a cdrom. I downloaded WarLinux 5 iso, stuck it on my HD, used Tom's Root 'n Boot rescue disk, mounted the ISO chroot'ed to it and then i could run kismet and the such, one problem is i keep getting the error "ERROR: Reading config files 'usr/local/etc/kismet.conf' : 2 (No such file or directory) Unable to parse config file. I don't know why this is happening, maybe because i am accessing it from the RAM so it can't write it to anywhere, and when i try to vi -i it, it tells me there is no such file, yet when i 'ls' i can see both .conf files.

I've finally got Mandrake 9.1 running with my gold card. Works with no problems so far. I have yet to install kismet and ethereal....

What happened at the meetup?

Edited by author 06-10-2003 10:49 PM
Trepia just released another version today.

http://www.Trepia.com

Here's another one, it's Java based so should work on any OS.

http://www.node99.org/projects/mognet/

Check this out, it's a NetStumbler look-alike for Linux, doesn't have GPS logging :( but does capture WebAP's even if the SSID is turned off.

http://www.remote-exploit.org/index.html

WTF? Radio Extravaganza is doing a two hour special on Wardriving on June 12th at 9:00 Central, You can find the stream on www.RantRadio.com . I will also be in the studio for this one, and we will feature an interview with
the creator of Trepia, Jawed Karim. Trepia is a revolutionary new IM that searches any networks you are on (including wireless), and populates itself with people around you. If you are in RantRadio's channel in IRC, you can request the number to call in to the show as well. We are on the Otherside servers, I use karma.othersideirc.net ...and the channel is #rantradio .

WTF? Radio Extravaganza is done from a strategic broadcast center in Springfield, Missouri....the website is www.spfd2600.org/wtf

WarLinux is just a LiveCD bootable CD. Loads kernel 'n all into RAM and then runs from there. I know it is possible using an x86 emulator in Windows but I am looking for an alternate way. As for the connector problem, nevermind, I just built my cantenna onto it and it works pretty good. WarBSD is out too, so people might want to check that out.

As for Semen's question.

1. The connector, it's hard ot tell from the drawing, is there anyway you can take a photo of it?

2. The distro. I don't think there is anyway you can place WarLinux on the hard drive then boot from it. Not sure if there is a complete install or it's just a bootable CD.

Not sure if this has been posted before, if it has been. Well I'll post it again.

Check out http://www.trepia.com it's IM for wireless, some how it's able to find people near you running the same app. Plus others, currently running the lastest version and there are about 120 people from around the world and it shows locate users as well.

Well, seeing that nobody responded to my post, i guess i'll move on. I was wondering if there was a way I could download an ISO (WarLinux) to my HD and somehow boot to it because i do not have a CDROM drive on my laptop. I just want to know if it's possible, like using WinImage to strip down the ISO and extract it to a folder and then er...booting to it ?

kthnx.

Do you have Instant message?

IM:

MSN: torontodss_99@hotmail.com
Yahoo: digiitalwiz_99@yahoo.com

NOTE!!! : remove the _99, just to prevent spam bots from grabbing the email address from this page.


Be alittle faster to help you out.

Anyone else like to contact me via those IM's go ahead.

Yes, I've got an Avaya (orinoco) Gold on Mandrake 9 (not 9.1).

I believe I was reading something about 'make config','make all', and something about 'build'. Anyway, I don't have the linux folder in /usr/src/ so I guess I don't have the kernel installed. I'm downloading 2.4.20 right now.

This is Mandrake right? You don't need to download the kernel or recompile it. Just the network drivers.

I'm assuming your running Orinico Gold card right? Same thing I have and all I did was compile the drivers. Took 3 mins.

Linux is confusing me. :( I'm in the process of downloading the kernel so that I could install the pcmcia drivers. I've downloaded kismet, but haven't installed it yet.

Some other apps.:

Ethereal

-Mognet

-Kismet

-Airopeek

•AirTraf (Linux)
http://airtraf.sourceforge.net/index.php
•Ethereal (All OS’s) http://www.ethereal.com/
•Sniffer Wireless (Windows, PocketPC)
http://www.sniffer.com/products/sniffer-wireless/default.asp?A=3
•BSD-AirTools - Prism2dump (BSD) http://www.dachb0den.com/projects/bsd-airtools.html

I'm running a GOLD on my laptop and running 9.1 Mandrake works no problems. Just need to patch the drivers and then compile them. Then again if you install 9.1 I can email u the drivers. Since I already have them working.

I've read that Kismet only works with Prism-based cards. Is this correct? I'm using an Orinoco Gold. I plan on installing Mandrake 9 on my laptop (dual-boot with WinXP) just to try out Kismet. :) Any thoughts on this?

TML is right, I've done the samething and Kismet puts NEtstumbler to shame in how it's able to pick up ALOT more AP's. Then again they do work different, Netstumbler sends out and ping, and Kismet only listens.

One other feature that I like about Kismet, is that it's able to 'watch' the packets. realtime.

TML, that's amazing. I'm not a Linux guy but I'm going to give that a shot. :)

Edited by author 05-24-2003 08:46 AM
Check packetninja.ca for Canadian AP scan's. Anyways, I ordered an Orinoco pigtail, got it and it's got the WEIRDEST N-connector i've ever seen. None at the regular electronic/hardware stores. It's male N-connector, with a depressed cylinder and a pin in the center, check the ascii sk1llz :

threads on outside
|------------------
|===== <- the pin
|------------------
threads on outside


So, i need a female little cylinder with the threads on the inside, that will fit inside this and have a little cap that will screw onto the outside of my connector...confusing. I was wondering if there was a way i could possible just build my antenna onto the end of the pigtail, but i've been told it might not work...can i just solder a huge piece of metal onto the pin ? anyways, keep up the good work WB. AND i've got some software issues, i've been hacking 2K/XP drivers to work with my 95 system to put my card into monitor/promiscuous mode to no avail. i'd also like to stuff WarLinux or run QNX with kismet on it, but i'm having trouble with drives, so if anybody can help, great. apart from that, i've been wardriving for like 4 months and loving it. kthnx, bye.

Hi, glad you found it. The Deep Wireless appears to be with radio only. I wonder how the wireless networking discussion fits into this area... Have fun in Toronto!

Re: recommendations for ftp'ing? What do you mean by that?

what a great site. I will be coming to Toronto this weekend for the deep wireless conference at Victoria college
http://www.deepwireless.ca/tsf/

this site answers pretty much every single question I had!

but if anyone has the best reccomendation for ftping - I'm all ears

Hey TML, where you located in Brampton? I'm up at Main and Bovaird area.

Anyways, this weekend the Toronto Star had a story about Wi-Fi, here's the link to it.

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentSe...e&cid=1052251603354

Does anyone here use the boingo software? If so, how does it work for you?

WOW!!!!. I have not been on this site for a while and I was pleasantly surprised at the number of discussion. I think this is cool.

I just configured a RedHat 9 IBM laptop and installed Kismet. I drove from Brampton to Yorkdale mall and picked up so many more APs than I would have normally picked up with Netstumbler. The best part was when I loaded the Kismet log to Ethereal, I was able to see people's password in clear text and plaintext email. I am a newbie (2 weeks experience) with Linux and Kismet but I think they are a great combination.

Just wanted to say my $0.02.

Beefy,

You're getting a signal all over Streetsville? I wonder if they're trying out something new... There are many WEP cracks out there. Try KisMAC or Kismet...

After a bit of scanning today, I found that I received the no-SSID, no MAC address Bell-AccessZone signal for an area about 3Km in diameter covering all of Streetsville in the West end of Mississauga. Still can't get access to it though and I can't seem to pinpoint the origin. Again, if anyone knows ANYTHING bout, would be much appreciated. Specially if u happen to know what WEP key the access-zones were using at other locations, maybe its the same.

t0x0rg,

Do you want to help put up CAPs on the wb blog? I could give you an author account so you can enter points, or do you find new access points too rarely to warrant an author acct on this blog?

Edited by author 05-05-2003 12:53 AM
The SSID is TheSonyStore and it is located on the lowest level of the Toronto Eaton Centre on the west side, north of the fountain and south of Coles. There are no benches outside the store (because of lots of kiosks) and the signal isn't strong enough anyway. There is no problem using it inside the store as Sony advertises with banners in the store window that it's open for use by anyone. No one bothered me using my laptop in the store except a salesman who was interested seeing my Orinoco Gold wireless PC card after I had finished. Maybe someone can check out the Teluswifi SSID that I saw outside the store which was quite weak and probably coming from the Telus store to the south of the Sony Store.

t0x0rg,

Can you give us some more details and I'll post the confirmed access point into the rest of the blog... Ideally the SSID, the exact location of the store and any other pertinent points. For example can it be used outside the store? Thanks!

I tried the Wireless Zone at the Sony Store at the Toronto Eaton Centre today. The AP is right in the back so I had to go into the store to get a connection (height of geekdom: walking around the Eaton Centre with a laptop displaying Netstumbler graphs, hehe). Also noticed a Telus wifi SSID when outside the Sony Store and will have to investigate in the future near the Telus store as my battery died :-(

I got the idea from here:

http://www.geocities.com/lincomatic/homebrewant.html
It's called - Toothpick Monopole

The mount I came up with. Didn't cost me anything to build, since I used stuff I found at work.

Digiital: the radio antenna you have in your car, did you build that yourself or found online schematics somewhere? if so could you forward the link? or email me with any information you have building omni-directional antennas, i have scoured the net and only found yagi-style antenna's and nothing like the one you have. Thanks =-)

my email is: vile_style@hotmail.com

K guys, I'm real confused here.

I've have a wireless card in my laptop for a few weeks now and always as a habit, open NetStumbler at least once a day at home just to see if a neighbour has set up a WiFi network yet (I can't afford one). Just today, I finally got a hit but NS shows it as 000000000000 for the name and no other info. When I check the Dell Truemobile software it shows up as BELL-ACCESSZONE. I've tried doing a bit of research and can't find any info on this other then an age old press-release when Bell started setting up Access Points.

Here's my info:

Mississauga near Britania W and Erin Mills.
Exact is Bonham Blvd. and Turney Drive.
Dell Truemobile 1500 running on Win2000
NetStumbler (newest version)

If anyone knows anythign bout this sort of setup I'd appreciate it if they could help me try to figure this one up.

E-Mail is bobodbear@hotmail.com

How many of the CAP's in downtown Toronto are behind firewalls? as in only web, email and standard ftp access... has anyone found one that has no ports blocked?

Sheesh could they not make it bigger :)

always nice to see one of these nowadays ;-)
look for it if your ever in the parkdale/roncessvalles area.

http://www.projectlakarus.com/chalk.jpg

Oh ya ment to post this the other day.

I compiled this and ran it on my home network, works REALLY well, haven't tried on a ramdom wifi network yet.

http://www.ex-parrot.com/~chris/driftnet/

Check this out. It's sorta like Netstumbler for Linux and PDA's.

http://www.remote-exploit.org/

t0x0rg - I used one last week, and it worked fine. I was speaking to a representative at one of the Centrino demo booths, and she said that they would probably be active until the end of the summer.

haha
shoulda looked into kismet before I made that post...

Anyone know how I can configure brutalware to work with some of these nodes? There's very little support for the it, but if you know your way around Linux...
I'm a total newbie to all of this, but I assume to access some of these nodes you're using sniffers or something right?
Brutalware seems like the perfect package minus wireless. Would that involve recompiling the kernel? Or just modules?

Now that the Bell Accesszone pilot seems to be over according to their webpage, does anyone know if the access points are still working or have they been turned off?

The antenna is something I cooked up really quickly at work. I have to do some testing make sure the antenna is cut to the right size. We have the equipment(work for a company that makes aviation radios). Just have to take some time to do it. Maybe not this week.

REALLY Busy. I'm heading upnorth for the weekend. And I have a Radio contest as well this weekend, and I have to cookup a antenna to string up at my inlaws.

If you haven't figure it out, I'm a Ham Radio Operator as well :) Big contest for Ontario.
http://www.odxa.on.ca/oqphome.html

Edited by author 04-14-2003 12:10 AM
Nice setup Digiital!!!

If anyone cares, this is my setup:

IBM Thinkpad 770X, 300 Mhz, 128 Megs. Running XP and Linux.

Here are some pics.

http://members.rogers.com/digiital/Digital1.jpg
http://members.rogers.com/digiital/Digital2.jpg
http://members.rogers.com/digiital/Digital3.jpg
http://members.rogers.com/digiital/Digital4.jpg
http://members.rogers.com/digiital/Digital5.jpg

So has anyone see what I'm about to describe before?

I FINALLY got my Orinoco Connectors on Thursday and built the pigtail at work. Hooked up a alligator clip(about 6 or 7"s) didn't have a antenna at the time and it worked ALOT better then the internal antenna. Anyways, earlier this week I also compiled/installed Kismet on Linux (if you have Linux, and haven't installed this application, then you HAVE to get this app going, it finds stuff that netstumbler doesn't even blink at), alright back to what I found.
I don't have the info handy right now, but I found a AP, if you want to call it that, that in Kismet it didn't have a 802.11b channel AND the SSID was cloaked, Kismet has the option to 'watch' the data, so I'm watching. Their were tons of junk packets about 4-5 characters long, and then the USER and PASS started to show up and then email messages. There were as well packets that looked like connections to the network(references to Domains....) what I thought was funny if you want to call it that, was I saw the User name and Password as someone logged into the database. Whats interesting this about this, is that they to the trouble to hid themselves with the cloaked SSID and somehow disable the channel iding AND then forget to turn on WEP.

Anyways thats my adventure for today, all of this took place around Hurontario and 401. One thing for sure this was AP was dealing with the insurance biz.

I thought I saw some software to crack WEB already. Let me do a quick search .......

Humm maybe I was wrong, looks like it's only for Linux
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wepcrack/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wepattack/

Speaking of Linux, has anyone played around with KisMet? Seems like it's a better in some ways then Netstumbler, but it's only for Linux, can get it to work with Windows, but it's a pain from what I understand.

Anyways. I'll play around with it tonight see if I can get it to work/compile on my laptop.

Am downtown a fair bit but like to roam... I can't believe how many unprotected APs are out there! That being said, I also cannot wait for WEP cracking software to arrive for PC users. As soon as I can rig up an antenna for my wifi nic I'll be in heaven...

Edited by author 04-04-2003 07:49 PM
Hi WARDRIVER, that Peter Street location is kinda busy isn't it? You in the downtown core a lot?

Haven't cracked open a 650, friend did but doesn't have pics or modded it yet.

But this might help
http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/DlinkCardComments
http://www.geocities.com/james3pa/DWL650.html
http://users.skynet.be/chricat/DWL-650.html

This one has some really good pics.
http://c0rtex.com/~will/antenna/


As for that location, no I haven't don't leave Brampton all that much :)
From Miss-Brampton is my routine.

Got any advice about how to wire up an external antenna to my DLINK DWL-AB650 2/5Ghz pcmcia card...

I know I'll have to crack it and solder some pigtails but I don't know where to make the connection or what effect it will have on the built-in antenna...

PS: did you try out that location I posted last night?

Of course I was.

I'll post some once I get my pigtails in order :) Still waiting for the connectors to arrive. Once I do then I'll post some. I've sent some stuff over to Bandit.

Doods... here is another one... Digiital... you WERE kidding about not sharing these finds weren't you? Isn't that what this is all about?

Anyways... this company's network has an axis webcam on it but I cannot fingure out the password... it is not the default root/pass that it came with...

Park SB in front of a tattoo place across from 117 Peter Street, just down from Plastique. Fast and reliable all week. The SSID 102 and MAC 0050DA9351D4 on CH3.

NJoy

Edited by author 04-02-2003 02:08 PM
Boy you hit the jackpot!!

Sheesh don't tell anyone ;)

Honeypot special!
256 McCaul Street, Toronto!!!! Some kinda gov't network with hundreds of nodes open (need password) and dhcp internet! Fuck y'all come on down!!!'

This is the best spot I hit yet!

If your just going to be using it in the backyard, then I don't see why the internal antennas wouldn't work. They say in a clear field you can get about 1000ft point to point. From the house to backyard wouldn't be more then 100 ft. So I can't see why the internal antennas wouldn't work. Now if you want to play with external ones, then just using the hubs antennas as-is, and then build a cantenna for the heck of it.

Aha I think I see. Let's see I had my hub on 2nd floor in the front of the house and I wanted to use it on the deck and even further back in the backyard. I'd assume the Vertical Antenna at the hub and a cantenna... It would be interesting at least first to get the cantenna to see how it works and then see if I need anything else.

So the real question is -- can a cantenna attach to an AirPort card in an iBook or is this a PC only solution?

I haven't done it myself, but based on my other hobbies(Ham Radio, Bud(Big Satellite dishes)).

First of all need to know a few things.
How far away do you want to use the laptop from the hub?

If you can place a antenna up high, in a clear area and your planning to use it in a WIDE area, then go for a Vertical at the Base, and a cantenna on the laptop. If your going to be using it Point to Point, then I would go for 2 cantennas.

If that doesn't answer the question, then provide alittle more detail as to what your trying to do. Thanks

Answered my own question with the signull and cantenna websites. Very nice. So if I want to extend range do I put a cantenna on BOTH the hub and the wireless PC Card on my laptop? Or just at one point, say on the hub or say on the laptop. Kind of new to this range extension biz, can you tell?

Hi guys. I have a Linksys BEFSW11S4 wireless router. Any ideas of how I can attach an antenna to it to extend range?

I live at Sayal :)(and the other electronic stores) I work around the corner. I'm up in Brampton.

I was going to try a few different designs. One I really would like to try is using a Satellite dish. Like you find for Bell or Starchoice. That would be a interesting test to see the distance it would clear.

I would like to build my own antenna but to start off, I would like to have one to play with. I have called around and a company in Mississauga seems to carry the connectors we would need to make a Pringles Antenna or a waveguide one. I posted it in the Netstumbler forum but here it is again.

Sayal Electronics
1350 Matheson Blvd
Mississauga
905.238.8640

I have never been there but the lady told me they had the N-connectors and other goodies too. let me know when you are ready to build one and I would not mind watching you make it. I live in the West end. How about you?

I'm assuming you don't want to build your own?

One of my other hobbies is Amatuer Radio. So part of the hobby is homebrewing with Antennas, so thats what I'm going to do once my connectors arrive.

I would be very interested. I am on the verge of ordering an antenna too. I have narrowed it down to a Cantenna from www.cantenna.com or the omni antenna from Signull www.signull.com. Any feedbacks on these?

Good Luck. I've been looking for one as well for the GOLD version.

I'll be ordering some connectors. I can make up a pigtail if you want. How much? Not sure but wouldn't think it would cost more the $20cdn with the coax, connectors. Interested?

Any one know where I can get a pigtail in Toronto for my Orinoco Silver card?

Alright here we go. I have a DellMobile 1150, which is a rebranded Orinoco gold card. I'm in the process of ordering some connectors. Anyone interested? Should work to at MOST $10 Cdn, but I'm guessing somewhere around $6-7cdn for the Connector, not pigtail.

This is a very, very simple discussion board. Basically there is 1 topic, and 1 topic only. I can more topics as necessary but we'll see how it goes. Feel free to post, respond, go absolutely nuts.