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My friend IM's me just now.. guess where he is..

The Stigenator

The Stigenator

Lifer
ON the side of the 5 freeway sitting and watching some equipment monitoring the freeway.

He has his laptop plugged in and its on teh web.. he is getting upload/download at about 3.2mb/s each way according to dslreports.

mmmmmmmm 🙂

Edit: He is sitting in Irvine.. on the 5 freeway.
 
Originally posted by: tweakmm
where is he exactly?
do they have ethernet jacks on the freeway?
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Yeah he is in Irvine.. on the 5.

Edit: THere are no open ethernet ports. But Caltrans has these boxes which have to be unlocked to access the network ports and equipment. He is connected via that.
 
There's an ethernet plug on the side of the freeway with Internet connection? Hmm.. i am going to setup a cubicle and a desk around that area.. where is this exactly? The 5 freeway is quite long..
 
Originally posted by: Fausto1
Originally posted by: Beau6183
Originally posted by: amdskip
why are there ethernet jacks on the freeway?
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hell... why not?
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Whoa....imagine the possibilities. Passengers could surf pr0n, nef, and play counterstrike on road trips. :Q
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Only if it was wireless. Otherwize you would have to stop every mile. 😀
 
Originally posted by: aphexII
Originally posted by: Fausto1
Originally posted by: Beau6183
Originally posted by: amdskip
why are there ethernet jacks on the freeway?
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hell... why not?
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Whoa....imagine the possibilities. Passengers could surf pr0n, nef, and play counterstrike on road trips. :Q
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Only if it was wireless. Otherwize you would have to stop every mile. 😀
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Right....I was thinking of each interstate having a Wi-Fi "tunnel" along it. That would kick ass.😀

 
Originally posted by: kt
There's an ethernet plug on the side of the freeway with Internet connection? Hmm.. i am going to setup a cubicle and a desk around that area.. where is this exactly? The 5 freeway is quite long..
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Its in Irvine, he is sitting underneath an "overpass". There are some boxes on the sides (caltrans steel cases). You unlock them and have access to caltrans stuff. He works for caltrans and hence has the authority to check it out. CHP will come along from time to time to check what your doing.. remember your right by those idiot drivers. Its loud as hell and headphones is of the need.
 
Originally posted by: axelfox
Which exits? North or south of the Y?
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Sorry I cant tell you because frankly I dont know which one he is at.

There are 3 locations the work out of. Each within a mile of each other. I know one of them is a street that is closed for repair (atleast was when I went by the last time). At that time he was above the freeway not below by the side.
 
Originally posted by: bleuiko
CS on the road? oh man... you're never gonna get to your destination LoL
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Hehe....I can see it now....

"DUDE!!! Quit swerving, I'm trying to plant the fricking bomb!!"

😀

 
Originally posted by: MrCodeDude
Heh, I'm surprised none of you guys know anything about war driving or using wireless network cards..
-- mrcodedude
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I know what Wardriving is.. I got a Wifi card for that..

Only problem.. I dont have software (or cant seem to find one for Windows). I have it running on Linux.. but what can you do in Linux (we got linux on a laptop).. other than surf.. .. anycase if you can find me a good Linux and Windows softwre to find PoP's I will be very grateful.. this one I have is horrid.
 
Originally posted by: MrCodeDude
Heh, I'm surprised none of you guys know anything about war driving or using wireless network cards..
-- mrcodedude
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Who says we don't know anything about it? I'm actually plotting to create a mini Wi-Fi cloud on my cul-de-sac since several of our neighbors are both good friends and fellow nerds. LAN gaming and 11mbit file transfers from house to house....how cool is that?😀
 
Originally posted by: The_good_guy
Originally posted by: MrCodeDude
Heh, I'm surprised none of you guys know anything about war driving or using wireless network cards..
-- mrcodedude
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I know what Wardriving is.. I got a Wifi card for that..

Only problem.. I dont have software (or cant seem to find one for Windows). I have it running on Linux.. but what can you do in Linux (we got linux on a laptop).. other than surf.. .. anycase if you can find me a good Linux and Windows softwre to find PoP's I will be very grateful.. this one I have is horrid.
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www.netstumbler.com they only support a handful of wireless cards though 🙁 Supposedly there are a bunch of open WAPs in Pasadena, at the Block in Orange, and at Irvine Spectrum. Too bad it doesn't work with my Belkin card 🙁

edit:
btw at first when I read your post, I thought he was wardriving or something too 😛 I was like "hey, cool, I drive down that way to get to school every day!"
 
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