Babylon Branch beats the Amtrak Corridor
Jon Udell: On the train down to New York yesterday, I ran MacStumbler for an hour and watched the WiFi access points fly by. Here are some highlights, Harper's Index-style:
| number of access points | 30 |
| number of open access points | 14 |
| number of open access points named linksys | 7 |
Like my previous WiFi adventures, this inspired me to once again do the same for the babylon Branch on the Long Island rail Road (LIRR). I have a better laptop now with a better antenna. However, I’m not on a Mac and I don’t have MacStumbler so I had to do this by hand. Here are my results:
| number of access points | ~85 |
| number of open access points | ~30 |
| number of open access points named linksys | 5 |
New acess points were showing up so fast, I guarantee that I missed some before refreshes. No joke, I was writing down the names of new acess points for the entire trip!
When I got to work, I went to post this entry when I discovered that there is a PC-equivalent to MacStumbler called NetStumbler. More experiments to follow…
PS: I added another new category for this post, called Technology. None of my other categories seemed to fit.