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Ben Hammersley writes in the Guardian about rural wireless's viability in England: As many small wireless ISPs in the US have discovered, 50 customers may be enough to run a profitable point-to-point network far off the high-speed grid in England, despite what British Telecom says. Of course, their expenses and their requirements for service are much higher than small, cozy ISPs.
Rob Flickenger shows OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) plus promiscuous network mode can pollute a wireless network (wired, too): At the OS X Conference, we all started seeing connection refused errors, but it seemed to vary by domain, time, and network. Turns out that Mac OS X 10.2(.1) running a firewall and software in promiscuous mode (in which all network addresses can be sniffed) can pollute a network.
Linksys WET11 news: For those of you interested in the new Linksys WET11 Ethernet bridge, Amazon.com is offering it for $117, and it qualifies free US domestic slow shipping. Make sure and get the Sept. dated 1.3.2 firmware update. It appears to have just appeared.