Wifi detectors suck. The best WiFi detector is not considered a detector at all, but it excels in finding wifi networks. What is it? A wifi equipped pocket pc. You can whip it out and within moments find out if the AP is open or not. Most of these detectors only detect if there's a network at all and have no ability to actually log on to the network and transfer or ping a website. Even some who indicate they don't use WEP are not easily gotten into unless you already have a password for the gateway. With a PDA, you can do a virtua full up test to see if it's even worth whipping the lappy out.
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Joel McLaughlin @ Dec 19th 2005 12:07AM
Wifi detectors suck. The best WiFi detector is not considered a detector at all, but it excels in finding wifi networks. What is it? A wifi equipped pocket pc. You can whip it out and within moments find out if the AP is open or not. Most of these detectors only detect if there's a network at all and have no ability to actually log on to the network and transfer or ping a website. Even some who indicate they don't use WEP are not easily gotten into unless you already have a password for the gateway. With a PDA, you can do a virtua full up test to see if it's even worth whipping the lappy out.