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New social and personal dynamics are being created every day because of wireless. This book attempts to examine the practical exploitation of wireless networking. The projects here will help you get an understanding of the driving force behind the revolution...
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Build Your Own Outdoor Access Point
Visit these useful links referenced in the book:

www.gweep.net/~sfoskett/tech/poecalc.html – estimate the voltage drop
www.nycwireless.net/poe/ - detailed instructions on how to build a simple splitter

extreme-weather enclosures:
www.tessco.com
www.talleycom.com
www.ecwest.com

Lightning protector online vendors:
www.fab-corp.com
www.pasadena.net/shop
www.hyperlinktech.com
www.wisp-router.com
www.ydi.com

www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/isaac/wep.fac.html – Paper on cracking WEP
www.agnitum.com - wireless LAN Security
www.zonelabs.com - wireless LAN security

www.nod32.com – anti-virus software , smaller company that provides competitive bulk licensing and yearly renewals

Antenna grounding guidelines:
www.qsl.net/ccarc/light.html
www.polyphaser.com/ppc_pen_home.asp

http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Security/Anti_Virus/Products/ - comprehensive list of anti-virus software

surf completely anonymously by using a third-party paid service:
www.freedom.net
www.anonymizer.com

www.webveil.com/matrix.html – overview of anonymous surfing services
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet/Proxies/ - general directory of anonymous surfing sites
www.roboform.com – password helper program

Antenna grounding information:
www.qsl.net/ccarc/light.html
www.polyphaser.com/ppc_pen_home.asp

http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg - Multi Router Traffic Grapher
www.raxnet.net/products/cacti/ - more powerful successor RRDtool
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Internet/Network_Mangement/ - good starting point for SNMP monitoring software

DIY Software:
M0n0wall - www.m0n0.ch/wall
Pebble - http://nycwireless.net/pebble
WISP-Dist - http://leaf-project.org/

commercial suppliers:
RouterOS-www.mikrotik.com
StarOS-www.star-os.com

More DIY Resources:
www.socalfreenet.org/standardap - comprehensive design and description for a wireless access point used in a community network
www.nycwireless/poe - how to build a PoE adapter from $10 worth of parts for your existing access point
www.seattlewireless.net - a treasure trove of hardware comparisons, specs and vendors
www.socalwug.org - wireless projects, reviews, and vendor presentation videos

Active mailing lists where DIY-related information appears regularly:
www.bawug.org
www.personaltelco.net


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