Warchalking and 802.11bag repeaters?

[Tyler Durden]

This remionds me of something I've been wondering about, which may actually 
call for warchalking (though I'm sure warchalking is not being used for this 
yet).

Here in NYC Verizon has already set up about 50 802.11b nodes on top of 
telephone booths, and when they're finished there will be about 150 city 
wide. Now one of these nodes is down the street (Wall Street), but its too 
far out of range for me to reach from my desk. The Starbucks across the 
street, however, is a different story.

Now I'm wondering...if there existed an 802.11b repeater between Starbucks 
and the Verizon hotspot, then I could potentially send a friend working down 
by Wall and Water email or whatever without the message ever going wireline. 
(Is this correct? Of course it assumes that the IP shortest path is a 
wireless one.) Since any 802.11 repeaters that might ever come into being 
could be quite cheap, I can easily see private citizens installing them in 
order to connect 802.11 b/a/g islands together, bypassing the wireline 
infrastructure althogether. Warchalking would help such folks determine how 
far the hotspots actually are from one another, to see if a repeater is 
needed.

-TD






>From: Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi at yahoo.com>
>To: cypherpunks at lne.com
>Subject: Re: Warchalking does not exist: a wager.
>Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 22:34:30 -0700 (PDT)
>
> > Don't know about warchalking per se, gpsdrive and kismet work a lot 
>better,
> > and people trade the waypoints/nodes. Makes a hundred times more sense
>
>I never figured out why does one need a map of grocery stores. You see a 
>store
>with the OPEN sign and get your chocolate.
>
>802.11b works the same way, there are zillon drivers that give you a list 
>of
>OPEN access points IN YOUR RANGE* and you simply pick one (some drivers 
>will
>also test the connectivity to the backbone so you don't waste time with
>firewalled ones.)
>
>And the purpose of chalk marks is ?
>
>
>
>* 18" grid dish does wonders ... all the city is in the range.
>
>
>
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