On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Thomas Eibner wrote: > What exactly is it a RG-1000 is? http://www.orinocowireless.com/template.html?section=m59&page=129&envelope=95 It's a wireless access point with an integrated 40-bit PCMCIA card (it's actually an Orinoco Silver.. you can take it out and use it in a laptop, if you want to void the warranty of the RG-1000). With the default firmware, it can either run as a bridging AP (jsut a standard dumb access point), or you can run it in NAT mode (it has a 56k modem that it can NAT out to your clients, or else it has an ethernet port it can use). You can also load the firmware from an AP-500 onto it, which adds 128-bit WEP (and, as I understand it, upgrades the PCMCIA card to a Orinoco Gold in the process!), and some other cool features. AP 500 URL: http://www.orinocowireless.com/template.html?section=m58&page=1407&envelope=94 Another option is firmware from KarlNet (www.karlnet.com), which can turn these things into Wireless Bridges and Access Point Clients, making them ideal for the Customer Premise Equipment for a WISP. I've also seen people booting Linux/BSD on these (X86-based hardware), and the hardware is identical to the Apple Airports (if you so desire, you can put the Apple firmware on them). (Wow, I sound like a market droid!) It doesn't have a built-in external antenna jack, but you can easily rip it apart and use a standard Orinoco PCMCIA card -> N cable. Best price I've seen on these before now is around $150 on Ebay; this is insanely cheap. If you don't have any wireless networking gear yet, this is a great way to get started. I haven't actually personally used one of these before, but I know plenty of people who have, and I will be using one in a week or so when it gets here.. :) (I'm planning on using at least one of them to expand the network in my house. I'm going to set up a separate "wireless" network, where each of the access points jack in to, which then hooks up to a ethernet port on my firewall that only allows encrypted access through. Right now I just use 128-bit WEP, tsk-tsk.) So now my AP collection will have 1x D-Link DWL-1000AP, 2x Linksys WAP11 (highly recommend these for bridging/PtP/PtMP applications!), and 2x RG-1000's.. fun! :) Heh, I'll have more AP's than I have cards.. -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500