Wireless hacking projects for Wi-Fi enthusiasts /

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Author / Creator:Barken, Lee.
Imprint:Rockland, MA : Syngress ; [Sebastopol, CA] : Distributed by O'Reilly Media in the United States and Canada, ©2004.
Description:1 online resource (xxiii, 334 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11131229
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Other authors / contributors:Bermel, Eric.
ISBN:1597490024
9781597490023
0080481787
9780080481784
9781931836371
193183637X
1281055956
9781281055958
9786611055950
6611055959
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
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Summary:Sales of wireless LANs to home users and small businesses will soar this year, with products using IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) technology leading the way, according to a report by Cahners research. Worldwide, consumers will buy 7.3 million wireless LAN nodes--which include client and network hub devices--up from about 4 million last year. This third book in the "HACKING" series from Syngress is written by the SoCalFreeNet Wireless Users Group and will cover 802.11a/b/g (Wi-Fi) projects teaching these millions of Wi-Fi users how to "mod" and "hack" Wi-Fi access points, network cards, and antennas to run various Linux distributions and create robust Wi-Fi networks. Cahners predicts that wireless LANs next year will gain on Ethernet as the most popular home network technology. Consumers will hook up 10.9 million Ethernet nodes and 7.3 million wireless out of a total of 14.4 million home LAN nodes shipped. This book will show Wi-Fi enthusiasts and consumers of Wi-Fi LANs who want to modify their Wi-Fi hardware how to build and deploy homebrew Wi-Fi networks, both large and small. * Wireless LANs next year will gain on Ethernet as the most popular home network technology. Consumers will hook up 10.9 million Ethernet nodes and 7.3 million wireless clients out of a total of 14.4 million home LAN nodes shipped. * This book will use a series of detailed, inter-related projects to teach readers how to modify their Wi-Fi hardware to increase power and performance to match that of far more expensive enterprise networking products. Also features hacks to allow mobile laptop users to actively seek wireless connections everywhere they go! * The authors are all members of the San Diego Wireless Users Group, which is famous for building some of the most innovative and powerful "home brew" Wi-Fi networks in the world.
Other form:Print version: Barken, Lee. Wireless hacking projects for Wi-Fi enthusiasts. Rockland, MA : Syngress ; [Sebastopol, CA] : Distributed by O'Reilly Media in the United States and Canada, ©2004 193183637X