What is this wifi signal?

[Fat Tone]

I decided to do a little 'war driving' on the way in to work today, and frequently had my pda scan just to see what networks are out there. It is a Dell Axim X51v.

I think the majority of networks were encrypted, and most of the ones that weren't were called Belkin54g - no great surprise there!

Anyway, this 'signal' kept coming up: SSID = RIFU Laim-Altstadt, mode = Ad HOc, Ch 6, Signal = No Signal, BSS ID = [6 hex pairs I don't want to type]

I've only started seeing it recently. In fact it is there now, in my office, where nothing wifi has ever been detected before.

T.

Should I be looking for black helicopters?

[az]

Dunno how this could help, but "Altstadt" is german for old town.

[VJ]

Is it just me, or is it strange that it is an ad-hoc network...?


Jörg

[Gurm]

I've seen lots of ad-hocs... coming from HP printers with wireless, broadcasting themselves out like the little print-whores they are!

[az]

Really? I could print "We're watching you" on some poor guys printer without needing to physically connect to it?

Still the name doesn't sound like something randomly chosen.

[Taz]

It's not the Dell PDA itself

[Gurm]

Really? I could print "We're watching you" on some poor guys printer without needing to physically connect to it?

Still the name doesn't sound like something randomly chosen.

Yup, you could. But I didn't mean that your PARTICULAR ad-hoc was from a printer. Rather that it could be from just about ANYTHING.