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know anyone with a wireless networking connection but you are either too far away or you just cant get a strong and steady signal?  well never fear!  your answer is just a hardware and electronics store away.  check out these sites.  the first sells you the whole package for $50 but if you make it yourself from the second two sites you can do it for half that.

http://www.cantenna.com

http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/cantennahowto.html

http://www.cruftbox.com/cruft/docs/cantenna.html

really useful if you have a laptop with a wireless card, or say a POCKET PC with wireless access.  if you make one, or have one lemme know how it holds up :)

way cool hack. good find. Tony should be intersested in this since he has been known to piggy back on someone elses network...

Wardriving.

You might come across this term if you read through the pages above. I only came to know what this meant a few days ago while I was at Walden book reading a Hackers Quarterly. Wardriving is the act of finding and using someone elses network without them knowing, usually not just surfing the web, but other bad stuff...hehe...

see, i just found this cause a buddy of mine is trying to share his network with a friend two houses down.  the friend is gonna pay him for usage to help with the cable bill.  the reverse end is just as nice though.  if i ever get a wireless pcmcia card for my laptop i am definitely gonna have to make one of these.  only problem that tony and i saw... how the hell do you hook the empty end of the pigtail to the card or router?

You need a NIC or a pcmcia card that has an external antenna connector. I have seen a Verizon Card with one. I wonder if my friend still has one.

Those pigtails are around 20 bucks, i am thinking you can find one at a CB Radio shop.