Geeky post: Portable wireless router

People are amazed at how the low rez jpegs shoot into my laptop from my camera, wirelessly. Clients immediately get hooked on staring at the laptop screen while I shoot. For the most part I'd say 80% of the time, it works without a hitch.

Once in awhile, and it's always when you don't need it, the camera and laptop seem to stop speaking to each other. While I create a network on my iBook, the inherent quality of the wireless card/software is built on LOOKING for a network rather than serving one. So suddenly without warning we'll have two devices looking for a network, kinda like each of them saying " Well I thought YOU were serving the network!"

This little device servers up a network wirelessly D-Link's version of what Apple sells as the Airport Express, but a bit cheaper and smaller. It is about 2.5 inches square, and it runs off a USB port for power, so I plug it into a USB port on my laptop and presto, instant network.

You can also use it say to serve up wireless from a single highspeed connection, say, in a hotel. You can also use it to act a wireless adaptor for any device.