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Offline chupame2

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Whats a Cantenna?
« on: February 17, 2004, 04:20:08 pm »
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 :)
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Re:Whats a Cantenna?
« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2004, 09:25:13 pm »
way cool hack. good find. Tony should be intersested in this since he has been known to piggy back on someone elses network...
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Re:Whats a Cantenna?
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2004, 01:50:48 am »
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...
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Re:Whats a Cantenna?
« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2004, 01:23:05 pm »
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?
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Re:Whats a Cantenna?
« Reply #4 on: February 18, 2004, 07:51:59 pm »
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.
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