Re: Black Mountain and Mount Allison (SF Bay Area) wifi

miso@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I found a site survey mode in my BB 8320 that works somewhat similar
to netstumber. I sniffed this site from Mission Peak, about 20 miles
away.
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SSID: Black Mountain Link 2
Mac Address: 00:02:2D:64:B4:79
Encryption: WEP
Channel: 1
Signal Strength:-87 dbm
Band: 802.11b/g
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Mount Allison site was about 8 miles away.
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SSID: Allison North SJ Link 2
Mac Address: 00:02:2D:29:E9:87
Encryption: WEP
Channel: 1
Signal Strength:-89 dbm
Band: 802.11b/g
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I assume these are point to point systems with very directional
antennas, and not necessarily related.

00-02-2D used to be Agere Systems(Netherlands) but Proxim bought
out the wireless LAN business several years ago.

Mount Allison does seem to have a nice collection of Antennas:-
http://www.com-ctl.com/sld_allison_2.html
http://64.124.190.25/view/index3.shtml?newstyle=Quad



The BB 8320 also has a tone beeper mode that changes the repetition
rate of the tone relative to the signal strength, to aid in finding
the transmitter.
.

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