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Sat 28 May 2011

Review from findmysoft.com
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There's a thorough review of NetStumbler at findmysoft.com. Their rating is "Very Good" - thanks!

Tue 3 May 2005

Helium Networks launches Wireless Recon
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Congratulations to Helium Networks on the launch of their Wireless Recon product. Wireless Recon includes dedicated mapping hardware and software that combine to give you speedy and accurate site surveys. If you've used NetStumbler, then the SiteSense client may look rather familiar to you.
Read the full press release here.

Wed 27 Apr 2005

Super-cheap DIY Antennas
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Making effective use of available materials: you can build a cantenna from plastic water bottles, window screen mesh, cheap coax cable, and valve stems.

Tue 22 Mar 2005

Enhancing beacons
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Brad Templeton suggests extending beacons to include additional local information (lat/long, address, factoids, directions, hotspot info, etc). This is a great idea; I look forward to adding support for it into NetStumbler.

Tue 22 Feb 2005

Municipal Wireless
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Everybody and their dog seems to be weighing in about Municipal Wi-Fi. Of course, they all have axes to grind and are taking the sides you would expect: the incumbent ISPs, telcos and cable companies are against it (sometimes in the form of poorly veiled "grassroots" organizations), while the community groups, potential users and equipment manufacturers are for it. No surprises, nothing to see here, though the outcome might be interesting.

Mon 13 Dec 2004

Softpedia award
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Softpedia has awarded NetStumbler 5 stars and a Softpedia Pick Award.
5 Star Award

Wed 8 Sep 2004

Wardriving is not a crime
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According to a very well written and thorough article in the Virginia Journal Of Law & Technology, what we've been saying for over 3 years has been determined to be true: WarDriving is not a crime.

Thu 22 Apr 2004

Welcome, Slashdot readers
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Wow. Slashdot increased my traffic by a factor of 16.
Thanks to netstumbler.com, fastbone.com, Hosted Zone Web Hosting and Mercy Hosting for taking some extra bandwidth!

Wed 21 Apr 2004

Finally!
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Since I released NetStumbler 0.3.30, I have experienced birth, death, illness, new job, and increased bandwidth costs. None of these will be helped by the arrival of both NetStumbler and MiniStumbler versions 0.4. Download and enjoy. Sorry it took so long.

Wed 24 Mar 2004

Where's 0.4?
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There has been much speculation that I've stopped working on NetStumbler and MiniStumbler, but I am working on it. The new version is coming soon. Really.

Thu 4 Dec 2003

Yes, I am still here
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I've been starting to get emails from people wondering if I'm still alive. Well, I have been just a little too busy to do anything with NetStumbler, but things have quietened down enough that I am working on version 0.4 again. It will will work better and on more cards than ever before. A new MiniStumbler will come with it, and it will work on the Dell CF cards as well as Prism CF and PC cards.

No dates yet, because you've seen what happens when I try to predict them :-)

Sat 3 May 2003

Mailing List
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There is now a Netstumbler mailing list. This list is intended for news and general discussion of NetStumbler, but not for FAQs or general wireless discussion.

To join, send mail to imailsrv@c2security.org with subscribe netstumbler yourfirstname in the body of the message. Many thanks to the folks at www.michiganwireless.org for hosting the list.

The list is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/netstumbler%40mail.c2security.org/.

Mon 14 Apr 2003

256MB CF cards going cheap
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Amazon is selling the Viking 256MB CompactFlash Card for about $40 (price varies daily) after rebates.

Sat 23 Nov 2002

Wi-Fi speed spray: test results
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The folks here at the NetStumbler engineering laboratory got some WiFi Speed Spray. We found that the manufacturer's claims are not quite accurate. The bandwidth of our test equipment, rated at 42 bogobits per second, was not improved, and indeed the spray appears to have caused the laboratory's LAN to launch a denial of service attack on itself. We did find, however, that the spray is good for giving your vehicle that "new car smell". Also it works on children and pets, giving them that "newborn baby smell" and "cute puppy vomit smell".

Wed 13 Nov 2002

Whitepaper on WLAN scanning
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Finally, there's a well written paper about the characteristics of various WLAN scanning tools.

Fri 20 Sep 2002

My own new Mini Stumbler
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Thomas Marius Milner was born today, and is in excellent health. His two older sisters are very happy.

I will not be doing any Netstumbler-related work (including answering e-mail) for some weeks, while my family welcomes our new addition.

Tue 17 Sep 2002

Why so quiet?
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People have been asking what's going on, so here's an update. A number of things are stopping me getting much work done on [Net|Mini]Stumbler. You may not know that I work on this in my spare time when I have nothing else to do.

My third child will be born any time in the next week or two. Those of you that have children will be aware how frantic things get approaching the birth, and how much time is needed to adjust afterwards. To make things even more busy, a third of the people in my department were laid off last week. This has resulted in an increased work load. So, less time available for writing my own software, and replying to your lovely emails.

Wed 14 Aug 2002

Welcome to stumbler.net!
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This site will give you the most current information available about the development of the NetStumbler and MiniStumbler software.
The general idea is that this will be a highly condensed version of the information that you find at netstumbler.com.
There's not much here yet, so check back soon.
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