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pferland

With vistumbler you would just need to look at the channels that are being used and find one that is used the least and hope for the best. Insidder would probably be a better bet for you, since it can graph the channels that are being used around you. Maybe Andrew can add some more info that i cant ...

pferland

So Andrew went on a war drive today, and broke the 200,000 AP mark.

The official count is 201,675.

-Phil

pferland

good thing i have 4lbs of C4

pferland

PS. maybe it was pferland trying to get into my PC.

*shifty eyes*

pferland

yeah AVG tends to not like vistumbler that much :/
I would go with the Microsoft Security Essentials, haven't had one false positive with it yet.

pferland

What AV are you using Freebe?

pferland

view -> Filters
Add filter
Name it, and enter open in the authentication field.
it should now only show you open APs

-Phil

pferland

I setup an IRC server at irc.randomintervals.com
All are welcome.
more details at http://irc.randomintervals.com

pferland

Freebe been a while since i have seen you around here.
nice, i wish i could upgrade my wifi card, but the last time i tried to my laptop wouldn't boot

-Phil

pferland

Are you using a German Language version of Windows? If so your language pack file might have changed with the update.

pferland

1. Boot Live CD (I used OpenSuse 11) 2. mkdir /mnt/sda1 <-- mount points 3. mkdir /mnt/share <-- mount for network 4. mount /dev/sdb3 /tmp/sdb3 5. mount -t cifs -o username=USER,password=PASS //192.168.3.42/F /mnt/share 6. cd /mnt/sda1 <- go here to start copy 7. tar -pczf /mnt/share/backup.tar.gz ....

pferland

Hmm a friend of mine had the same Alfa card as you, and didn't have any issues.
Andrew might have a better idea of what is going on. He wrote Vistumbler, I just wrote the database

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-Phil

pferland

Welcome to the Forums! Its great to see other people around the world collaborating on a project. There was one person a few months ago that had imported a good bunch but never saw any more from them after that. If you have any comments/questions/or concerns feel free to let us know Enjoy the stay -...

pferland

In one day we went from 187,000 APs to 190,000 and all by one user. Forscher, who imported 18 files and over 13,000 APs. Keep up the good work!

-Phil

pferland

Is Auto-KML running in the backround?
If so and you have a ton of APs in your list, your CPU usage will start to go through the roof.
Even my laptop with the same specs (2.2Ghz CPU), does this with AutoKML.

To turn off the Auto-KML go to Options->AutoKML and make sure it is not checked.

pferland

I just ended up abandoning the LT-40, cant remember if it was because of no support for Vista/Win7 at all or that it was 32bit only, but I needed a 64bit compatable GPS, so I just got another Microsoft GPS.

pferland

Another 5 months and 30,000 APs later and we have made it to 170K Access Points.
User NoOne made the mark with his drive around Washington D.C.

Current AP count is 171,263.

-Phil

pferland

hey man, been around, Andrew and I have been working on a new project called UNS. I have been unemployed also since June, have only had one in person interview since then lol.
hope everything works out for you.

-Phil

pferland

I have been quite bored lately, so I decided I wanted to see what it would take to make something that worked like the Google Instant search. just a little javascript, some XML generated by PHP and your done. Although I have run into problems with it running in IE on windows and Safari on OSx. Chrom...

pferland

Been working on a new Export format for the database over the last few days. This new one does not show the APs all at the same time, only as you zoom in on an area will the APs show. There is also outlines of each Country and in the United States, states that have APs have outlines. -Phil :shock: h...

pferland

We didnt create GSAK, we just find it useful for some things and made a post linking to their site. if you want more information on it, go ask them on their forums http://www.gsak.net/board/

-Phil

pferland

Its been a long 8 months since the last release, but here it is. WiFiDB Alpha 0.20 Build 1 is ready. Its already running over at http://www.vistumbler.net/wifidb/ if you want to give it a try. Some of the Major addtions are three new daemons (Database statistics, Import Export Daemon Performance mon...

pferland

So I got board last night waiting for some scripts to finish their 7hr run, and decided to make some Vistumbler based Android boot animations for my Droid. They dont have alot of detail, just the bars are highlighted green and the VIguy is red when it reaches him. There is also another version where...

pferland

The only way is to post a kml or kmz file on a forum like this. Google stritly controls the things that are in google earth by default

-phil

pferland

So its been about 2 months since the last landmark post, and we have ad about 15,000 APs imported since then. SgtLeo with his cross country drive pushed us over the 140,000 mark.
Current count is 140,187.
New release of WiFiDB is just around the corner.

-Phil

pferland

I don't know why you would think that an OEM Wireless card is different from a retail one. I have never seen a wireless card that cannot connect to a hidden SSID AP.
As for the other part, I would recommend adding MAC filtering if you are worried about people connecting to a hidden or Secured AP.

pferland

Dude, thats insane. Was watching the video and at the end realized that you where explaining it while driving down the road.

pferland

Good to hear you got it working!
Just curious what are you running for hardware?
KML file exports usually take a little bit.

Auto KML tends to really bogg down older hardware, even my Turion X64 at 2Ghz has a hard time with AutoKML lol

-Phil

pferland

Vistumbler uses the NMEA standard to read the GPS data, try setting your GPS to that and see if that works.

-Phil

pferland

Latebra, I should have probably mentioned this earlier, I have to do a lot more work to the database then I thought. The production database is not going to be able to support \\'s until I rework the database a little bit. I can't move the alterations over to production without doing an upgrade to t...

pferland

Hi Latebr, sorry about the late response. As Andrew said it was my birthday on Saturday so I was being extra lazy over the weekend. I did take a look at the issue, and it was with the double slashes. Made some changes to the code and got it to create a table on my test server, but for some reason it...

pferland

Sorry about the forum and DB issues of the last two days. We moved over to a new RAID array and ended up having some problems.
The Database for the forum and DB is back online, and there shouldn't be any threads that are dead.
If you do notice something please let us know

-Phil

pferland

In just over a month there have been 25,000 APs added to the database.
I think this is the largest gain we have had in such a short time. Thanks tOsE crossing the mark.

So far the current count is at 125,064.

-Phil

pferland

OK so, me and Andrew have been tossing around the idea of setting up a contest were the person at the end with the most Access Points in the database will win a Vistumbler T-Shirt of a size and color that they pick. :D I am going to set up a separate WiFiDB for people to upload to for this. At the e...

pferland

Ya I have to tell the daemon to throw it on two users lists

pferland

The close GPS history button has been added to the bottom of each GPS table in the AP page.

The Co-Contributors part is going to take a little more time, its going to involve some reworking of the back end to support more then one user to an import.

-phil

pferland

I copied the updated Manufactures array, to WiFIDB, so if you import them into the database, they will have the proper Manufacture Info.

-Phil

pferland

Yeah I wouldn't ever recommend using the default anything (software or hardware) from your ISP, unless its a strait up modem only. I would recommend a Linksys WRT-54GL with DD-WRT flashed to it. Backtrack is a good OS to do security tests on your own network. WEP isn't hard at all to crack, only tak...

pferland

Nice to see more Massachusians in the Wardriving scene. If you dont mind me asking, what part of mass? And have you imported any into the Database?

pferland

It seems that you have "Native Wifi" mode enabled. Just go to Options-> Use Native Wifi Make sure it is not checked. Here is a screen shot if you need it. I'm running XP here at work, so mine is force-checked. native.PNG Native Wifi in windows doesn't return as much info as NetSH does, but...

pferland

My little Turion X2 struggles with Google Earth running on it at the same time

But without it, Vistumbler runs like a charm

pferland

The main reason Vistumbler is 'slower' at detecting APs is that Netstumbler didn't use windows to talk to the WiFi card, it just went strait to the hardware. Vistumbler uses the NetSH service in Windows Vista and 7, with some limited support for Windows native wireless in WinXP. The Atom is probably...

pferland

Vistumbler doesn't have an ability to actually connect to a wireless network, it just shows the output of NetSH in windows. I guess you could use it to see how far your signal is getting as to tell were people might be getting on from. But for more in-depth poking and prodding you would be better of...

pferland

OK so, had a little bit of a snafu over the weekend with the database. Seems that when I fixed the time calculation bugs, some regressions slipped in and caused some GPS problems. But they have all been fixed and the daemon is turned back on. Almost forgot to mention. The 110,000 AP mark goes to a n...

pferland

Its probably more of the fact that its not a true compile, its more of a script wrapped around a parser. Same thing goes for the installer.

pferland

Climbing pretty quickly, we are at 106,338 APs so far. As the weather warms up more we should be doing more and more wardriving. hopefully by the time summer is over, we have reached at least 150K.

pferland

I forget how the saying goes, "If you watch a pot of water boil it will take longer" or something like that.

pferland

So we finally reached 100,000 access points (101,110 right now (46 in binary), two people imported some small lists before I made this post). Andrew and I went to the UPS hub in Shrewsbury to get my new Vistumbler shirts. So we went and drove around just north of Rt 9 and grabbed about 1500 new Aps....

pferland

Yeah its usually not a good thing when one person is missing for a while and that means one quarter of your community is gone lol
Do hope he is alright though, cant loose a quarter of our community

pferland

So this post is a little on the late side, but we hit 90,000 access points last week (90,383 as of this post) when Andrew and I went on a drive around northern Worcester County.
This only took about 4 months or so, lets see how long it takes to get to 100,000.

-Phil

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