Good to the Last Ping: Yuban coffee can-based antennas are good enough, but other tin cans with connectors work slightly better. All of them beat the Pringles design. Building your own antenna never sounded easier.
Seattle Times nails the business wireless market scenario: I apologize for ignoring the newspaper in my own backyard (and which I write for). Sharon Pian Chan cut to the heart of the several intersecting battles and opportunities on Wi-Fi business side.
DLink introduces DWL-900AP, a Linksys WAP11 workalike: DLink's new model, introduced at $130 list price, appears to be identical in firmware and reference design to Linksys's WAP11. This isn't surprising. The price is, however: this may force the street price of both this unit and the WAP11 down closer to $100. You need a Windows box to configure this unit: it has the same USB and SNMP software that the WAP11 uses.
Ocala, Florida, newspaper editor declares Wi-Fi unsafe at any speed: while this editor understands the underlying issue, I feel he's blaming Wi-Fi for not incorporating higher-layer standards into its core protocol. Instead, I'd argue, the very same VPN software he describes as protecting LANs are equally as valid and necesary for WLANs. Any IT director who operates a wireless network without putting it outside a firewall and requiring access only via VPN should probably not longer be an IT director.
PersonalTelco in Portland, Oregon, picks up some local coverage of their new downtown Pioneer Courthouse Square service: gotta love the quote from AT&T Broadband -- it's like stealing cable! Well, it can be. If you're sharing network access with anyone, it's critical to read your service agreement. Some AT&T Broadband plans for business allow this kind of use, apparently. Also, cable theft is a federal crime; sharing bandwidth may be a matter of tort law, if that. (Nigel Ballard wrote in to tell me that in the Pioneer Square Courthouse location, they're using a business T1, so there's no "stealing" involved. No, really, AT&T - tell us your true feelings.)