would be good for cards with diversity antennas like cisco...

yup yup
teletronics 2.4 GHz 1 watt indoor amp with a Pacific Wireless 9dBi omni attached to it for _receiving_ in kismet.

ORiNOCO gold with a 12" pigtail-->amp-->4 feet of LMR400 ultraflex-->antenna
although 8 more dB gain on the receive side would be nice...

Also consider signal loss from connections, feed line.

.5 dB from each connector, and how many dB/foot from the feeder line to the antenna?

Heh, I figured you did a lot of road time. I went to great lengths to make sure my own company APs stayed out of the database, then apparently you went driving down I-10 here in West Texas. Ohwell. :wink: ...da Ronster Sigh, I logged in and that message still got posted as a guest. Go figure.[/quot...

get a big 'ol omni and mount that sucka out there. this would allow you to pick up in all directions. OR you could go with a yagi or parabolic and center in on the location of the AP (if that matters to you) or at least know what direction it is in...but you have to have someone move the antenna and...

only allows 1.5 meg of data to be uploaded. i use the gps lcd as the big picture of where i am in the city and gpsdrive on linux for street level 'hood cruisin

what is netstumbler using and defcon...vBulletin?

i have a job that makes me put a lot of miles on the road. i stumble while i travel for work. so yes, i stumble everyday, sort of. i am trying to catch the collective "aka Blackwave"