Jar Jar: How wude! — The Phantom Menace
Do you suffer from Poor WiFi Signal Performance? WiFi Planet explains that when you connect to a wireless network, you are connecting to a single access point (AP). But your laptop will roam to other APs with the same SSID, so you can continue to use the network.
But not all client radios use the same techniques to deal with roaming.
Or you could use The Slurpr (above). The Slurpr can only grab open networks, but it has six, count ‘em six, wireless cards, combining them “into a monster broadband connection for ultra-fast downloads”. It uses Senao/Engenius cards with the Atheros AR5213 chipset. Only 999 Euros.
Creator, Dutch hacker Mark Hoekstra is working on an upgrade that will automagically crack WEP Wifi security to steal closed networks, too.
Sharing Wi-Fi connections is fashionable, notes Om Malik.
FON is doing it through hardware, Whisher is a software only play, and newbie WeFi (right), has software for finding and logging into open wireless networks that are around you. Of course if you live in Portland, Oregon, you can also use the 100+ free PersonalTelco nodes or MetroFi’s free service — which may or may not work according to UnwirePdx-watch — a watchdog group in Portland.
The report by Russell Senior (left) and Caleb Phillips (right), has more detail than their preliminary March study which found coverage was about 50% across the 2.5 mile proof-of-concept area built by MetroFi.
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