Barken Wireless Hacking: Projects for Wi-Fi Enthusiasts

Cut the cord and discover the world of wireless hacks!
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-08-048178-4
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 416 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barken, Lee

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Cover;1
2;Contents;14
3;Foreword;22
4;Introduction to Book;24
5;Introduction to Wireless Hacking;26
6;A Brief Overview of the Wireless World;28
7;SoCalFreeNet.org: Building Large Scale Community Wireless Networks;48
8;Securing Our Wireless Community;58
9;Hacking Projects;82
10;Wireless Access Points;84
11;Wireless Client Access Devices;122
12;Wireless Operating Systems;142
13;Monitoring Your Network;188
14;Low-Cost Commercial Options;224
15;Mesh Networking;240
16;Antennas and Outdoor Enclosure Projects;250
17;Antennas;252
18;Building Outdoor Enclosures and Antenna Masts;272
19;Solar-Powered Access Points and Repeaters;300
20;Wireless 802.11 Hacks;324
21;Index;350
22;Related Titles;360