Damian's WiFi hotlinks

Damian's not been doing much on WiFi for a while, so this stuff may be a bit out of date now. However, for what it's worth, here is a list of useful URLs for finding out stuff about WiFi, which back in 2002 were some of the best I found:

802.11 Planet - lots of interesting articles, regularly updated
http://www.80211-planet.com/
802.11b weblog - One of the better WiFi blogs http://80211b.weblogger.com/
Reiter's wireless data weblog - Another WiFi blog http://reiter.weblogger.com/
Netstumbler - unbeatable freebie software for 'Wireless Access Reconnaissance'
http://www.netstumbler.com/
IEEE WiFi tutorials - at IEEE 802.x standards committee website ( …….navigate from top panel to 'WG_general'/'WG Tutorials')
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/11/index.html
Tutorials on Ad-Hoc, multihop etc - by Nitin Vaidya (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).
http://www.crhc.uiuc.edu/wireless/tutorials.html
Pringles can antenna - They claim 12dB gain (Ian Llewellyn thinks 6dBi is more realistic)
http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448
Commercial 2.4GHz antennas from HyperLink - They claim up to 24dB gain
http://www.hyperlinktech.com/web/antennas_2400.php
A collection of WLAN articles and essays - and useful links http://www.wlan.org.uk/page5.html
Wardriving in New York and elsewhere - Plus tips on WiFi security
http://www.extremetech.com/print_article/0,3998,a=13880,00.asp


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