olearysheehy at goldengate.net wrote: > SETTING UP AN ACCESS POINT IN THE MIDWAY AREA > [...] > a)stable and robust and Most of the commodity APs out there are all based on one of a series of Atmel designs, there's not a lot to choose between them as a rule (Dlink, SMC, Linksys all fall into this category.) > b) relatively transparent ... easy to figure out and set up. > > SeattleWireless has positive references to SMC on their site. > > Also, I am seeing some stuff on 802.11a protocol. Supposed to be faster. That's Ignore 802.11a for a while. There are a number of issues, but the killer for a neighborhood system like you're building is that very few people have the client cards, and they're more expensive. You might want to think about where you're connecting this on your home network, and what access other people will have to your computer. I should be bringing along my mast mounted WAP-11, just for grins. It increases the coverage area considerably over either long co-ax runs or interior mounting. -- andyw at pobox.com Andy Warner Voice: (612) 801-8549 Fax: (208) 575-5634