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Rogers and Bell team up to offer wireless internet across the country:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060402-6507.html

Beef up your wireless router, security, and features of this type of internet:

http://www.qbangsolutions.com/blog/inde ... ss-router/

Paint to increase your wireless security:

http://emsectechnologies.com/press_releases/press1.php

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/hughes/1003 ... king-paint



IT admin? Pffffffffft. I've got a brush and a bucket, b1atch

An introduction to setting up a wireless network:

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/30182/98/

Tools to help you with the upkeep of your wireless network:

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/30198/98/

Google to potential offer weather balloons to bring up instant wifi:

http://www.telecoms.com/itmgcontent/tco ... 07674.html

I don't really think it would happen.........but it would be pretty f00kin' cool if they did.

Satellite wireless internet is becoming popular again:

http://www.dailytech.com/JAXA+Satellite ... e10849.htm

If they fix the latency problems, it could become a real contender.

Space is about to go wireless:

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=10919


Newer satellites may be smaller (ie. cheaper), but use wireless internet to communicate with other satellites.

Wifi in remote, mountainous regions:

http://www.techreport.com/discussions.x/14534

http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/05/13/1225259.shtml

Guide To Setting Up A Wireless Router To Be An Access Point:

1. Plug router into network or plug PC into router
2. Find out router address (ie. 192.168.1.1) and log in (ie. user/password)
3. Disable DHCP
4. Change router address to f2all within your subnet address (ie. 192.168.101.2:255.255.255.255)
5. Change SSID, logon password, admin password, security (ie. WAP2), etc.
6. Plug into port 1 of switch/router and you're done

If you're worried about security, do the following:

1. Turn off broadcast SSID
2. Manually connect to the wireless

ZigBee is a wireless mesh standard:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZigBee