Thread: wardriving antenna

I own the big brother to that antenna, the 7dbi with two swirls. Wheras before I had to be within, say, 150 feet of an AP, with the antenna I can usually be up to 1000 feet, and in some rare cases up to 2000 feet.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...category=45000

night and day difference.

P.S. i'm speaking of suburban environments.

well, there ya go.

thanks for that link

There's nothing to the antenna but you can't argue with results! I also have a cantenna I can break out if I want to be more discrete and go further away, or simply pinpoint the source of the signal.

Try looking for an 8dB one. They are a little more money but again more distance and not that much bigger.

I'm gonna try to solder a wire to my Linksys USB G WiFi unit.
I was mounting it, and kinda broke/exposed the attenna element.

Even though attenna's are tuned for frequencies, sometime's it help having a larger untuned attennna.

I'm gonna see if it uses a ground to make a goround plane and maybe solder that to my car chassis, or is it just 1 element. Well, I can do test later, this USB is easy to hack.

My attenna will be used for file transfer and not so much wardriving. If I wanted to WarDrive, I would get a Orinaco base but that oonly does 802.11b, but works with Netstumbler.

Originally Posted by LESLIEx317537

I'm gonna try to solder a wire to my Linksys USB G WiFi unit.
I was mounting it, and kinda broke/exposed the attenna element.

Even though attenna's are tuned for frequencies, sometime's it help having a larger untuned attennna.

I'm gonna see if it uses a ground to make a goround plane and maybe solder that to my car chassis, or is it just 1 element. Well, I can do test later, this USB is easy to hack.

My attenna will be used for file transfer and not so much wardriving. If I wanted to WarDrive, I would get a Orinaco base but that oonly does 802.11b, but works with Netstumbler.

Try this site
http://www.radiolabs.com/products/antennas/wifi.html
and look at this THREAD

Originally Posted by bosstone74

Try this site
http://www.radiolabs.com/products/antennas/wifi.html
and look at this THREAD

bosston74 - Love the avatar

-Jason

Originally Posted by psyclobe

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his normal avatar is interesting,right now they only use chrismas-avatars not so interesting

Originally Posted by wizardPC

So i kind of figured out that my current wardriving setup has **** poor reception, so i need an antenna. I see these tiny antennas that cost about $90, and then theres this one on ebay that is only $20.

other than the fact that the ebay one looks like a CB antenna, anyone know anything about this antenna?

Th is one looks and sounds bas ***!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...6&category=176