Archive for 'Wireless'

Wireless phone + airport express = chaos!

While conducting a bit of research tonight, I decided to fire up iTunes to stream an Internet radio station to my home stereo. Just as I was getting into a song by Stereolith, the phone rang, and my airtunes audio stream died. I chatted on the phone for 5 – 10 minutes before it dawned [...]

Viewing wireless networks with wigle

I heard about the wigle and restyredwagon websites sites a while back, and finally had a chance to look through their content tonight. If you haven’t heard of these nifty sites, they both contain geographic maps of 802.11 wireless networks. Since the rustyredwagon website overlays wigle data on google maps, you can click a location [...]