Wireless Hacking: Projects for Wi-Fi Enthusiasts

Sales of wireless LANs to home users and small businesses will soar this year, with products using IEEE

802. 11 (Wi-Fi) technology leading the way, according to a report by Cahners research. Worldwide, consumers will buy

7. 3 million wireless LAN nodes--which include client and network hub devices--up from about 4 million last year. This third book in the "HACKING" series from Syngress is written by the SoCalFreeNet Wireless Users Group and will cover

802. 11a/b/g (“Wi-Fi”) projects teaching these millions of Wi-Fi users how to "mod" and "hack" Wi-Fi access points, network cards, and antennas to run various Linux distributions and create robust Wi-Fi networks.

Cahners predicts that wireless LANs next year will gain on Ethernet as the most popular home network technology. Consumers will hook up

10. 9 million Ethernet nodes and

7. 3 million wireless out of a total of

14. 4 million home LAN nodes shipped. This book will show Wi-Fi enthusiasts and consumers of Wi-Fi LANs who want to modify their Wi-Fi hardware how to build and deploy “homebrew” Wi-Fi networks, both large and small.