So we own a GPS, but my wife didnt want to use my GPS, she wanted to go on a 160 mile round trip to know how to get to a place that a concert is happening at next month, and I had to RIDE shotgun and tell her which roads to take. Took my netbook with me with only 50% battery life left in it, but 50% left = about 4 or 5 hrs left of LIGHT use.

So I DECIDED to sniff out the wifi in a harmless wardrive to see what was out there on the backroads of this trip to go from West to East through a state that only has highways that go North to South heading towards Weirs Beach, New Hampshire.

I took a screenshot of this funny find. It looks like 2 neighbors have had some issues based on the SSIDs ... One is HackedU2 and the other is GetYourOwnInternet

Just a guess that HackedU2 upset GetYourOwnInternet, but I got a laugh at this. Through the long drive I was surprised that there were so many wifi connections out there as well as many unsecured with default SSIDs.

Here is a screenshot of the funny SSIDs

But other SSIDs that were clean to share that were also a quick laugh was FBI Surveillance Van #12, LoonyBin, and one that is probably too dirty to put here in plain text but can be easily ASSEMBLED out of Wireless-G and the word Spot without the wireless- part of it I found creative.

The wifi utility that came with this Toshiba NB205-N210 is pretty cool in how it shows all in range, as well as strengths, and details with a very easy to use interface. Not sure though if the ANTENNA is directional or not though as far as if the blip to the left of you means the wifi is originating from the left etc.



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