WiFi Wireless Projects

Obstacles

None, it is flat. :-)

There will be leaves on the trees for a few months of the year.

The larger wireless community

Personal Telco Portland
Seattle Wireless [http://www.seattlewireless.net/HardwareComparison Hardware Comparison

WISP news

Frontier Broadband Industry News http://www.frontierbb.com/blogger.shtml

Broadband Wireless Exchange http://www.bbwexchange.com/

Wireless Internet Service Provider Association http://www.wispa.org

Links

Equipment suppliers

Fleeman Anderson Bird

Hautespot in San Luis Obispo

Single board computers

PC Engines makes WRAP boards, $129

Soekris boards are also popular for WiFi projects.

RouterBoard $99 16MB 1 Mb NAND flash (128MB) 2 MiniPCI 1 RS232 3-4 W

PepLink makes load balancers, WAPS, and a general purposes gateway router/switch box calld the Manga. See also "Debian in 3 watts". This shows how to set up a Manga to run Debian from a USB storage device.

Metrix Wireless development kits

Organizations

Certified Wireless Network Providers Bluetooth
IrDA
Wi-Fi
Wi-Max
Zigbee