War Driveing alternative.

[Kharn]

Ok all of us know about war driving, but i was thinking what about a alternative to it, today I was fealing more unhealthy than normal and I decided to start a new hobby.

I am calling it war walking essentially it is the same as War Driving but you walk instead of using a car you walk. Put the laptop in a bag and get the dog lead and go for a hour long (or as long as you laptop battery lasts) walk. I am going to go for my first War Walk soon and I will tell you how it goes.

 

[Trotter]

It will get you closer to the buildings, so it should work better. But you might attract attention standing there surfing...

 

[Kharn]

Won't be surfing Trotter I will be using Netstumbler to locate the networks.

 

[Phantom118]

lol sounds fun... Maybe I should try it next time I go for a run..allthough I would look retarted running through the trail in the woods with a laptop. I doute I would get many networks in my area.

 

[uzi9mm]

one day i tried "war pocketbiking"
with my little dell axim handheld pocket pc and boy it was fun!

 

[Kharn]

Well I just got back from the fist war walk I am going to review the results and tell you all what I found, This is for reaserch for part 2 of my wifi series.

 

[Kharn]

OK The first Results are in.

TOTAL - 55 Wireless networks discovered.

Filtered by Encryption:
19 with Encryption OFF.
36 with Encryption ON


Filtered by Channel.
Channel 1 - 7 Active AP's
Channel 5 - 2 Active AP's
Channel 6 - 15 Active AP's
Channel 7 - 4 Active AP's
Channel 8 - 1 Active AP's
Channel 10 - 1 Active AP's
Channel 11 - 22 Active AP's
Channel 12 - 1 Active AP's
Channel 13 - 2 Active AP's

Not bad for 40minutes walk with the dog, I will post more details when I have more time. I looked at some of the names and it is surprising the amount of people who give there networks funny names OR name them after there house.

 

[EMMteo]

how the heck do you do this?

 

[Kharn]

Laptop,USB wireless adapter, laptop bag, Small USB extention lead, Netstumbler <-- that is the required list.

Optional is a DOG, Bottle of watter and a pack of Ciggerets.

You walk the dog with netsumbler running in the bag and just walk. Healthy and Geeky.

 

[Kharn]

OK just started looking at some of the names most are pointless and boreing but this is a list of highlights.

SLIMER
sAssY2006
NINJA_WRT54G
MAR
HAKA1NETWORK
cLoUd NiNe

And my personal favorite

GANGSTA NUM1's NeTWORKSSS.