Wireless (802.11) Equipment

• NoCat Net, including proposal for authentication for public, co-op and owner, using HTTPS
• Vocera : wireless communications badge
• RoamAD: enhanced 802.11b, deployed in Auckland.
• Reach Out and Touch Someone: 802.11b with a Yagi antenna across 10 km
• NetStumbler: looks for wireless networks
• Use a Surplus Primestar Dish as an IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networking Antenna
• 8 dBi antenna
• Aironet
• Apple Airport: use the Lucent "Silver" card, but are claimed to be compatible with the Gold card. Silver is 40-bit RC4.
• Airport range extender
• Philips detachable monitor
• Payphone with 802.11 base station
• Unofficial airport information
• Upgrading to gold
• Acces server

Software

• SOHO Wireless LAN roamer software
• OpenAP: "complete source code, build environment, and instructions for flashing an 802.11 access point with linux 2.4.17. The end product is a linux-based access point providing full wireless services, including multipoint to multipoint wireless bridging (802.1d), while at the same time distributing fully standard 802.11b connections to end users."
• Wireless Tools for Linux (iwconfig and kin)
• Airport/Lucent test tools
• Airport Java configuration tool
• Ekahau: user location via 802.11

Last updated by Henning Schulzrinne