Location: All Around the Portland AreaBR Date and Time: September 30th, 10:30 am, UrbanGrind BR

Agenda

• Visit, test and collect information at locations identified as once active Personal Telco nodes.

Protocol (tentative)

• Train in Protocol

• In teams of 2 or 3, dispatch to each identified location. Identified locations are found here: PersonalTelcoBssids. Each location will have a sheet of paper with a map (I haven't figured out a tractable way to print a nice map on each sheet like I imagined, so unless someone figures something out very soon, I might just end up putting numbered dots on a few city maps).

• One laptop running Kismet or equivalent network stumbler, with GPS if possible.
  • Keep an eye on kismet to/from to see if you see more new PTP BSSIDs and check them out as well

    • CalebPhillips figured out a good way to do this: in kismet, sort by SSID, scroll to the www.personaltelco.net section and look for ! which indicates new packets. beware that some nodes leave off the www part of the SSID.

  • Drive around a few neighboring blocks to collect relative signal strength data, which will help in triangulating network location
  • At the end of the day, upload stumbling data to wigle (or give to Russell to do so).
• Another laptop available to connect to the node
• At each location,
  • Discover AP presence/absence

  • For each PersonalTelco-related AP present:

    • AP SSID
    • AP BSSID
    • Note strength of signal at curb
    • Connect
    • Note presence/absence of splash and any self-identification thereon. If captive portal indicates usage over time (N authentications since date X), note that as well.
    • Note local network: DHCP server IP, assigned IP.

    • Identify the upstream IP using http://www.whatsmyip.org or equivalent

    • If possible, identify the lat/long or address of the AP

Volunteers

• RussellSenior (also leader of this AmazinglyFunEvent)

• BrianBeattie

• MichaelWeinberg

• jason at jason justman dot com (GRPS and EV-DO, and serial gps - real time telemetry with google-maps for ajax mashup anyone?)

• SethShikora

• CalebPhillips (area of interest: desperate and unreasonable desire for organization)

• <add-your-name-and-area-of-interest-here>

Results

• [http://www.personaltelco.net/~caleb/kismet/2006-09-20/ Data from Trial Run on 2006-09-20]

• [CategoryMeetingNotes]