Cheap antennas

From: Lachniet, Mark (mlachniet_at_sequoianet.com)
Date: 06/11/04

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    Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:43:50 -0400
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    FWIW, I've had good luck buying antennas and wireless equipment from YDI
    (www.ydi.com). I have no relationship with the vendor, just found them
    to be clueful and helpful.

    Mark Lachniet

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Alvin Oga [mailto:alvin.sec@Mail.Linux-Consulting.com]
    > Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 9:16 PM
    > To: Mister Coffee
    > Cc: andrew@arhont.com;
    > Subject: antenna - Re: Wireless pentesting requirements
    >
    >
    > On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Mister Coffee wrote:
    >
    > > > Most of the wireless stuff we do involves mangling custom 802.11
    > > > frames, injecting traffic into the network without knowing WEP,
    > > > accelerating WEP cracking, phishing and guessing users
    > credentials
    > > > etc. - Wi-Foo
    > > > (www.wi-foo.com) describes it all pretty much. For all of
    > this, open
    > > > specs for both firmware and drivers are vital.
    > > > >
    > > Good reference site, definately.
    > >
    > > I should see about compiling a list of good antenna sites
    > for those who are interested. There's some sweet commercial
    > gear, but it's expensive. You can build some very nice home
    > brew antennas, of course, there's a lot of good information
    > on antenna design (there's a number of places to get the
    > calcs for building a Yagi, for example), but not much
    > -inexpensive- test gear in that range, or information on
    > coupling, that I've seen.
    >
    > how about
    > http://linux-wireless.org/Antenna
    >
    > c ya
    > alvin
    >
    >

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