RYANMETCALF.NET Wardriving resource page I'm currently transitioning my personal homepage for a bit to Google Sites, till I get things figured out/hosted elsewhere, but have a small (but growing) collection of resources and datafiles related to wardriving. http://www.ryanmetcalf.net/wardriving (or permanent link)



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  Largest KML yet! As of now, we have 8593 points in our latest stumbler log, which has already been converted into a KML and is ready for download here: http://www.ryanmetcalf.net/downloads/kml/wardriving/master_kml/coverage_chart.kml (16 mb) we also have all of our other individual KML's (a lot smaller to dl, though some points will be duplicates in the small files. The earth logo below and the one above the posts will take you to our KML repository.


(just because we wardrive everywhere we go, there a quite a few hotspots from Lawrence, KS and St. louis, MO included in the KML file (s))

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  Indentifying Wireless connectors After ordering a couple of different wireless connectors for my helical waveguide antenna project and not getting the right ones, I decided to get smart and use a guide located on the internet. The clip below highlights the type of connectors I have on my Linksys WRT54G (v1.1) wireless router.

Male RP-TNC	Female RP-TNC
TNC connectors are usually found on access points such as the linksys WAP11.

Links:
Antenna connector guide article, http://wireless.gumph.org/content/3/7/011-cable-connectors.html
TNC Wikipedia aritcle, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threaded_Neill-Concelman_connector
SMA Wikipedia article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMA_connector

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  Wardriving Facebookers? There's now a global group on facebook for all wardrivers. If your on facebook come join us!


Links:
Wardriving Facebook Group, http://facebook.com/group.php?gid=2204913027

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  Wigle: It's for finding hotspots So, if everyone's out there collecting all of this wardriving data, they have to be sharing it somewhere, where?
One of the sites that supports users to upload their netstumbler (and other sniffing tools) logs to is Wigle. Wigle then takes that data and compares it to their existing data, using it to correct existing hotspots and place new ones onto the map. You can perform searches by SSID, address, state, metro, etc.


Links:
The Wigle homepage, http://www.wigle.net
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  Converting Stumbler data into KML In response to Kyle's post about converting kismet data into KML's for the Linux crowd, I thought I'd post up information for the windows/netstumbler crowd. Simpler then writing a conversion script, as is with the case of the kismet transfer, software called Earth Stumbler exists for transferring stumbler logs very easily.

Links:
NetStumbler, tool used for sniffing Wi-Fi, http://www.netstumbler.com
Earth Stumbler, log conversion tool, http://mboffin.com/earthstumbler/
Google Earth, world mapping tool, http://earth.google.com/

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