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Well Netgear already has routers out there. It seems the intent of the product is for on the go people who connect via wireless, and yet have very lax security on their laptops. This will add somewhat of a security prevention as for getting hacked via wired side. Now on the other side, wi-fi open, laptop open---not a smart choice.

Security is a must all around.

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Well Netgear already has routers out there. It seems the intent of the product is for on the go people who connect via wireless, and yet have very lax security on their laptops. This will add somewhat of a security prevention as for getting hacked via wired side. Now on the other side, wi-fi open, laptop open---not a smart choice.

Security is a must all around.

It appears D-LINK came out with a similar
product, about the same time.

Look here:

http://support.dlink.com/products/view.asp?productid=DWL%2DG730AP

Folks:

Life is hard for our vendors.

Here is a product that can be a router, a bridge, an access point, a printer server, an audio server, a wireless client, a wireless "range extender", a network address translator, a power adapter, a hand warmer, and a paper weight -- not all at the same time but in various combinations as configured.

http://www.apple.com/airportexpress/

The vendor calls it a portable airport base station. Customers don't care what it's called, they just want it to work. When they want a non default feature turned on and it doesn't work they don't want to know that it was in router mode and needed to be switched to bridge mode or wireless client mode, and virtually none of these terms is in the configuration interface.

It is a very cool device. I plugged it in and it worked. But understanding what it was actually doing in response to configuration changes was hard, hard, hard.

Thanks. /criss

What does iTunes have to do with a pocket
router/ wireless to ethernet bridge or access point?

Let's say someone is in a hotel room, and they
are an airline pilot or medical doctor traveling
the world. The hotel room offers a RJ45 port
to connect your laptop with a patch chord.

You don't care about iTUNES ... but you want
your laptop's built in wireless to work,
and dislike the patch chord's clumsiness.

The Netgear or D-LINK pocket devices will work.

That's all that matters.

Point well taken.

Airport Express is both a transportable "take it with you" device and a "stay put in one place" device. The wireless audio service may only ever be used in the later scenario.

The Express is like a farm tractor that can pull a wagon, or power a grain mill, take your pick.

Thanks. /criss

FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- D-
Link, the global leader in consumer connectivity,
announced today that its AirPlus(TM) G Wireless
Pocket Router/AP captured PC magazine's highest
award, the PC Magazine Editor's Choice in the
February 8th issue of the magazine. The near perfect
review places the D-Link AirPlus G Wireless Pocket
Router/AP (DWL-G730AP) as the top portable wireless
connectivity device thanks to its small size,
excellent range and robust network configurations.

(snip)

Here:

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050201/latu009_1.html

by the way, congrats Meijin on being one of The CWNP Program's success stories.

http://www.cwnp.com/certifications/success_stories/michael_davis.html

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