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Ken,

Thanks for your suggestions. That is a bit more extreme, but definitely thinking out of the box.

Anyways, I'm trying to come up with a practical solution. We must remember that the University is trying to provide essentially "ISP services" to the students. If you use "licensed spectrum" even assuming the University is permitted to use it for free, what are the chances that the students will go out and buy highly rare (highly priced) custom adapters for their PCs?

Anyways, maybe I misspoke about 802.11a being too expensive. I was shocked to do a search on Price watch and found some Proxim 802.11a access points for $25 and Intel 802.11a PCMCIA adapters for $14. Since that has 8 true non-overlapping channels (might be able to firmware hack to 24 channels), there is plenty of space for everyone!

George

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