Chicago, IL, USA

[bobzilla]

I'll start off this forum. I'm bobzilla, a co-founder and developer for WiGLE.net, and I'm in Chicago.

[uhtu]

hi, my name is uhtu and i'm a WiGLE.net software minon here in our WiGLE development labs in chicago.

[arkasha]

Arkasha, rounding out the wigle compliment, and the chicago compliment.
driving in the windy city IS my bag. and social wardriving's a lot of fun.

[mycroft]

hrm. I guess I'm a hanger-on since I haven't been out driving with you guys in a very long time, but driving Hyde Park was my idea, so I'll post Chicago all the way.

[Tech]

I'm near chicago. In the suburbs. Whoever mapped rt. 176, thanks! Since there are a few hotspots near me I'm going to get into wardriving and mapping hopefully. Just need to sell this desktop and get a laptop.

[arkasha]

you'll note from the HUGE size of the download that we've mapped the living heck outta this place. wish we could get this kind of coverage all over.

[Guest]

Why doesn't the lake county map pack have a map? All I see are the AP's and a grid. The AP's are all on the left.

[ed: this has been dealt with here: http://wigle.net/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=1037#1037 ]

[Tech]

Oops, that was me who just posted as a Guest. Guess I forgot to log in.

[Superman3]

Hey, I'm here in the windy city for the week. Inlaws are in Huntley and Algonquin so I'm trying to find a faster internet connection. Are there any free wireless ap's in one of these two cities?

Superman3

[Guest]

Hello, all!

I have been wardriving for a while now (6 months or so) and I just found this site and began uploading my data (Kismet XML files, I guess those are the most complete compared to the CSV, GPS, etc files - right?). I sent an 8MB dump from the last few weeks, which included a road trip out to Kansas City, and then a few minutes ago I jammed up a 30MB file containing everything else (mostly, back and forth to my old work - Barrington to Vernon Hills, but also some other odd routes to friends and familys houses and other events).

Now I just need to find a job where I can wardrive while working (like, onsite technician type deal, where I get to drive all over for work). I used to hate driving around here, but wardriving makes it so much more fun (and less "roadrageous"). I almost hope I get stuck in traffic, so as to collect more/better info about particular areas.

[Spudz76]

Oops... I logged in but somehow it still posted the above as "Guest". Oh well, the above was me!

[bobzilla]

Yes, I tend to naturally take strange paths to get to places, now it's a feature to improve my stats.

[kai]

'Ello, ello. I've been wardriving for about a month now, living in Joliet, IL (about an hour south of chicago down 55). Is anything still crackin' in IL? Any meetups? I'd love to meet with some other drivers around the area.

[Spudz76]

There never was a meeting at all as far as I know. There was interest in one but it never happened. So we all quietly do our own thing and upload our info to the database, and that's about it.

[kai]

How about everyone that posts here join the Chicago Wardrivers in the Stats Group so we can get up there on the boards?

You'll notice my miniscule amount of networks discovered so far, but like I said, I've only been wardriving for about a month. I might be driving to philadelphia in January, and if I do, I'll surely be wardriving the whole way so watch out for some new stuff up there.