[brlug-general] Wanted - old cheap wifi access points

[Edmund Cramp]

Thanks - that's an excellent idea - I now have one on order.

My original plan was to simply saturate the 2.4GHz band with an AP on each channel to force the device under test into moderate worst-case bandwidth sharing between 802.11 devices but obviously a few generic 2.4GHz sources would be a good addition - Radio Shack wireless handsets are cheap too.  Of course there's always this approach:

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/587507/microwave_technology_homemade/

I've often thought about hacking a magnetron.
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: general-bounces at brlug.net 
> [mailto:general-bounces at brlug.net] On Behalf Of Fernando Vilas
> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 8:17 PM
> To: general at brlug.net
> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Wanted - old cheap wifi access points
> 
> On Thursday 11 October 2007 16:15:00 Edmund Cramp wrote:
> > Right Tim, so my thinking is that an AP on each channel 
> should create 
> > a fairly uniform bad wifi area no matter what band is 
> tested... or am 
> > I missing something?
> >
> 
> If you have a WiSpy key handy, put your laptop in the same 
> room as a microwave while you make yourself some tea.  Watch 
> the whole spectrum go nuts.  This works better on consumer 
> grade microwaves than corporate, due to different shielding 
> requirements.
> 
> There was something a while back (a year or 2 or more) on the 
> Daily WTF where some genius had installed APs for a college 
> dorm in the same room as the communal set of 12 microwaves.  
> They kept having connectivity issues for some reason :-).
> 
> Basically, the point is that if you can't get your required 
> number of APs, and want a really noisy signal, you could 
> always stick a common microwave next to it.  The advantage 
> here is that your experiment keeps you fed while you work. :-)
> 
> --
> Thanks,
> Fernando Vilas
> fvilas at iname.com
>