With my new wifi card in hand I decided to take my laptop and gps for a little drive around Fremont. I was hoping to find a few free or at least public for-pay hotspots. I figured I'd see a mostly home AP's and hopefully a few with names that I'd either recognize or would stand out (like "tmobile" or "boingo"). Well, the access point noise in Fremont is immense. I logged 850 separate ssids after driving a
2km on a side squarish loop. The only public hotspots I found were the fremont library (catch-and-release NAT hack) and Mission Valley Roasting (didn't stop to try it).Two ssids did stand out and I'm curious what they could be. Both ssids include the names of mountains that have large antenna farms on top of them. Both are 802.11g with a 11Mbits/sec data rate. Any one know what these are? Some local experimenter's group? A commercial venture? Google has a hit or two for each of these, but the hits are just other folks wondering what these are too.
"Black Mountain Link 1" "Allison North SJ Link 2"
-wolfgang