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Wireless Progress-less

Having a frustrating time getting the wireless connection to the Kelley's to work for us. Despite our early testing success, we're finding that an attempted connection with a wireless access point at each end won't work. I'm not going to go into the details, but I think we can get it to work. Caleb took the radio out of a non-functioning wireless access point, and that radio is actually a PCMCIA card. He was able to find some software on the internet to operate the card in his Windows 2000 notebook. That setup works, and with that he can connect to the wireless access point on the tower at the MAF base. We're going to attempt to set Rachel up that way for now, putting that PCMCIA card in the Kelley notebook, and connecting the cantenna on the roof to that card. It's not what I wanted, but given the financial resources I have, it will have to do for now. At this point, Caleb isn't very impressed with D-Link products. That's my polite paraphrase of his comments. You will find that there are others who share his opinion!