wifi predator (DAMN!!!)

[str33tl0rd]

hello

i didnt see this anywhere in the forum.....dats why i post it......

for any wardriver this is like a tool sent down from heaven

THE WIFI PREDATOR

Picture this: You find yourself sitting in a hotel room that does not offer wireless internet... As you look out the window, you spot that the three hotels & a Starbucks across the street advertising "Free Wireless Internet" -- if only you had known this when you booked! You fire up your wireless card, but the signal just is to weak to keep a consistent connection. What are you going to do?


Enter “The Predator”.

The predator is a modified wireless router connected to a high-powered antenna and running custom firmware to actively seek out open wireless connections. Once they are found, it will test them for internet connectivity and then join and repeat the one with the strongest signal to secured wireless connection that YOU control. =)

^^^^^^^^^^^dat was all copypaste from i-hacked.com

[Lyecdevf]

Check this out! You can make your own wireless antenna with a massive 3-5km range!

[DNR]

I doubt the 3-5km range, try that with factory made antennas. There are several issues here, the can should be smooth and grounded. The USB setup can't be moved without risking moving the USB plug in the laptop - it can break your connection. Homemade shit can be fun to tinker with on a rainy day, but you ain't going to use this clunky setup everyday.

Save your beer money and get this instead:
http://www.hawkingtech.com/products/pro ... ProdID=307 The cool thing is you have the wifi signal strength meter built in - a VERY important tool you need - the PCs just don't have the right refresh rate to help quickly focus in..

You can also choose many other cheap hi-gain antenna setups - all you need is the right connector, like a TNC on your card. The best setup is to get a wifi router/AP and then swap out the small diapole antenna for a bigger one like this:
http://www.hawkingtech.com/products/pro ... ProdID=221
By building a AP/hi-gain setup, you won't have to mod your computers or you can have friends bring their laptops over and connect on it too! This will work for old stuff that only had wired network cap. too.

check out this for more info on AP/AP routers..
http://wifi.aximsite.com/wifi-faq.html#_combo

The ideal hack for me would be to build an AP and hi-gain antenna into a laptop briefcase..

DNR

[str33tl0rd]

so DNR would you stick with the predator to have or the other stuff you talked about?....couz this one as it sayz: it lets you control the AP when it connects to it...

[DNR]

The predator is a nice device, the concept is the same though. I liked the idea of just buying a hi-gain antenna and mounting it in various ways - rather than making the antenna. Mounting the AP on the tripod is ok, but not really necessary.

Here is more on what is going on with the predator though:

In June 2003 some folks on the Linux Kernel Mailing List sniffed around the WRT54G and found that its firmware was based on Linux components. Because Linux is released under the GNU General Public License, or GPL, the terms of the license obliged Linksys to make available the source code to the WRT54G firmware. As most router firmware is proprietary code, vendors have no such obligation. It remains unclear whether Linksys was aware of the WRT54G’s Linux lineage, and its associated source requirements, at the time they released the router. But ultimately, under outside pressure to deliver on their legal obligation under the GPL, Linksys open sourced the WRT54G firmware in July 2003.

With the code in hand, developers learned exactly how to talk to the hardware inside and how to code any features the hardware could support. It has spawning a handful of open source firmware projects for the WRT54G that extend its capabilities, and reliability, far beyond what is expected from a cheap consumer-grade router.

Besides Linksys’ own official firmware, there are more than a dozen varieties of firmware replacements available for the WRT54G. The most popular are named Alchemy and Talisman, released by a company called Sveasoft, and another named DD-WRT, by a guy named BrainSlayer.

Sveasoft was one of the first developers of a WRT54G firmware based on Linksys’ open source version. Many branches in the firmware family tree, including DD-WRT, are themselves based on Sveasoft’s early modification. Buffeted by the success and enthusiasm generated by their firmware offerings, Sveasoft chose to build a business model around their subsequent releases. Because of the GPL roots of the original Linksys firmware, Sveasoft cannot prevent distribution of their own modifications. As a workaround, they’ve chosen to implement a membership fee of $20 per year to access the Sveasoft “community,” wherein support and new releases are made available. Some in the open source community object to the “wall” Sveasoft has built around its free firmware, and take it upon themselves to release Sveasoft’s work into the public.

Infighting aside, Sveasoft’s older Alchemy and newer Talisman firmware are popular and widely available. BrainSlayer’s DD-WRT is free of the Sveasoft culture war, and is itself an extremely powerful and actively maintained firmware.

http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials/ar ... hp/3562391

DNR