Aug 17 2004
The state of wireless
I finally got around to patching the orinoco wireless driver on my laptop, so I threw in my spare Orinoco gold and fired up kismet for the drive home. The ~15 mile drive yielded some interesting results:
- Total Networks: 264
- Unique SSID: 156
- No SSID: 29
- Netgear: 9
- Linksys: 36
- Default: 19
- Total Networks with WEP: 122
- Total Networks without WEP: 142
- % Networks with WEP: 46.2%
- Total Networks Factory Default: 8
- % Networks Factory Default: 3.03%
- Total Clients: 90
- Total Packets: 11975
The only thing that surprised me was the percentage of networks that actually were using WEP. The Aurora/Naperville, IL area is fairly tech-heavy, so the number of networks I found in one trip is to be expected. I’m going to continue this experiment over the next week or so and cover a few different routes to and from work. If I can get my gps working properly, I’ll even be able to capture geographical data to go with it.
hey Adam remember that one guy who went war flying over some parts of californa