A study on the security, the performance and the penetration of wi-fi networks in a greek urban area
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Ημερομηνία
2011
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IFIP International Federation for Information Processing
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Διεθνές
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This paper presents a study on the expansion of urban Wi-Fi networks and the degree of users’ awareness about their characteristics. It involves an experiment contacted at the area of Serres, a Greek city of around 70,000 inhabitants. The findings revealed that although the number of Wi-Fi networks is quite high, their owners are unaware of their technical settings. As a result many networks remain either unlocked or with WEP encryption while many adjacent networks use the same channel thus reducing their performance.