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Used satellite dishes.

Michchamp

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there are three of these mounted outside my apt windows.

Are they worth anything? these are the standard DirectTV/Dish Network small dishes.

Wondering if they have any salvage value.
 
[color=#551A8B said:
Danny Diggler[/color]]depends what kind of metal they are made of.

looks like steel. nothing special... it's a metal satellite dish.
 
If its aluminum you've got something but not at that little of quantity. Save that shit and collect more steel or aluminum garbage and wait for the price of scrap to go up..
 
The dishes can be modified to capture WiFi signals broadcast from APs (wireless routers) from much longer distances, and if U have the right kind of wireless card (laptop) or USB dongle (Orinoco gold, Belkin, Dlink, some others) that can be put in promiscuous-monitor mode, along with programs like AirSnort, Ethereal-pcap3.1/Kismet and have the tools and programs like Aircrack, necessary to hack and crack WEP and WPA/WPA2 PSK/TKIP encryption, the much more difficult latter using pyrit and rainbow tables.

http://www.airtightnetworks.com/home/resources/knowledge-center/wpa-wpa2-tkip-attack.html
 
Turok said:
The dishes can be modified to capture WiFi signals broadcast from APs (wireless routers) from much longer distances, and if U have the right kind of wireless card (laptop) or USB dongle (Orinoco gold, Belkin, Dlink, some others) that can be put in promiscuous-monitor mode, along with programs like AirSnort, Ethereal-pcap3.1/Kismet and have the tools and programs like Aircrack, necessary to hack and crack WEP and WPA/WPA2 PSK encryption, the much more difficult latter using pyrit and rainbow tables.

Nerd
 
Turok said:
The dishes can be modified to capture WiFi signals broadcast from APs (wireless routers) from much longer distances, and if U have the right kind of wireless card (laptop) or USB dongle (Orinoco gold, Belkin, Dlink, some others) that can be put in promiscuous-monitor mode, along with programs like AirSnort, Ethereal-pcap3.1/Kismet and have the tools and programs like Aircrack, necessary to hack and crack WEP and WPA/WPA2 PSK encryption, the much more difficult latter using pyrit and rainbow tables.

I have no idea what you just said, but it sounds pretty damn incredible.
 
[color=#551A8B said:
Danny Diggler[/color]]If its aluminum you've got something but not at that little of quantity. Save that shit and collect more steel or aluminum garbage and wait for the price of scrap to go up..


They are made of low-carbon steel, classified as "tin" by scrapyards because it's much lower value.

By me it goes for about $40 a ton so those 3 you have are almost 0 value.

I had a bunch from a guy who used to be an installer for direcTV, and when people would upgrade or switch to HD, or from Dish network they would take the old ones down.

When he got out of the biz he had about 600lbs of them plus the mounting brackets, so we tossed em into an old pickup trick that someone else wanted to be rid of and took to the scrap yard.

Got like $16 for the dishes, $240 for the rusty old truck.

Yank em and pitch em.
 
Turok said:
The dishes can be modified to capture WiFi signals broadcast from APs (wireless routers) from much longer distances, and if U have the right kind of wireless card (laptop) or USB dongle (Orinoco gold, Belkin, Dlink, some others) that can be put in promiscuous-monitor mode, along with programs like AirSnort, Ethereal-pcap3.1/Kismet and have the tools and programs like Aircrack, necessary to hack and crack WEP and WPA/WPA2 PSK/TKIP encryption, the much more difficult latter using pyrit and rainbow tables.

http://www.airtightnetworks.com/home/resources/knowledge-center/wpa-wpa2-tkip-attack.html


You better be glad this isn't the 15th century or you'd get burnt at the stake for witchcraft.
 
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