Wifi survey
27.04.2008 21:46
A laptop on the back seat running a wireless LAN sniffer can yield some interesting results. Here's some statistics I gathered with Kismet while driving on the route Logatec - Ljubljana - Maribor - Graz:
Driving route
Percentage of networks using encryption
Channels used
Kismet has seen a total of 368 different networks.
One thing that I didn't expect to see is the channel distribution. Why are most networks on channel 11? Maybe it's a default setting for some popular equipment.
Also surprising were a couple of networks that are encrypted, but have names that include the owner's GSM number (like "041xxxxxx Call for service"). I haven't seen this before, but it seems like a nice gesture.
Unfortunately I didn't have a GPS attached to the computer, so I can't draw an exact distribution of networks on the map.
