The person that sent me this info is kept anon here, as I think they prefered that. It seems that perhaps Best Buy as well as CVS moght not have actually turned off the wireless toys, but, rather tuned them down some: <quoted from two seperate e-mail on the topic from one person> Yes they ARE still up... I just drove by... at 6:37 pm eastern time on 05/31/02 The original BestBuy where I found that they were doing plain text is ALSO still running wireless even though they claimed to have banned them. Maybe they did in your town ... but not in mine Kismet says Name Type WEP Channel cvsretail A N 11 oh yeah I almost forgot... I have no antenna and I can usually catch em about a block up the street... its just rained and its abit humid if that makes a difference but this time I had to go RIGHT up by the window to get anything and I only got 11 packets. They may have implemented omni-directional antennas or something. <quote> Thanks, Ron DuFresne ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation." -- Johnny Hart ***testing, only testing, and damn good at it too!*** OK, so you're a Ph.D. Just don't touch anything.
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