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Originally Posted by -=Xploitz=-
Ok..just a quick followup that will make me look like a complete moron..but oh well...I post the truth no mater if I look bad or not.
I take back my previous complaint about the $80 USD hawking wifi signal booster. Problem was..I was 2 close to my AP to notice any difference. While "war-sitting"..lol in my house, there is an AP that has always shown up as a 2 - 4 power level on my airodump screen. So...I opened a new airodump screen with just my 10dbi omni connected..and the APs power level is at 5. So I plug in my amp and connect my antenna to it..and lo and behold..Im reporting a constant 15-19 power level. The signal quality was a sketchy 50-85..and unstable...but now its constantly 100..seldomly dropping at all to the 90's. So it appears that it works and I am a moron. But keep in mind that I was doing this to get better signal in my house from only 1 room away..and not to "wardrive" for other peoples AP's. Whats the moral of this story?? Test it all out beforehand or else you could be taking back something that worked extremely well to begin with. This has been a learning experience for me. I just never really look for other peoples AP's because I'm not trying to hack em. Nice to know though that a product like this works so well that it could be very easily used for mischief in the wrong hands though. I mean someone could easily break into my WEP protected router from over 1000 feet away with this AMP and antenna setup I got. Now I just need to "shield" my AP from all sides except for line of site just to add an extra measure of security, and put WPA2 TKIP+AES back on my router!! But then again..I am a very paranoid individual when it comes to hackers.
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So you learnt a lesson, that's good, here's another one.
Instead of trying to improve conditions on the client side, it would have been more wise to improve conditions from the AP side. To get adequate coverage in my house, I have 4 AP's scattered throughout. One in the detached garage, I have an WRE54G in the backroom that links to a WAP54G that's in the pantry, and then there's a WAP54G that bridges into the same WAP54G in the pantry.
I have excellent coverage through out the entire house no matter where I go. When I get done wardriving for the day, I pull buggy into the garage and upload my data right from there instead of hauling the PC inside.
08-08-2007, 01:18 AM
So it will just overload and burn out all of your amps in the series, and fry your nuts at the same time...Kool!! Who needs to pay for a vasectomy when you got free Wi-Fi radiation?
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