Owner of http://unwiredworld.net and http://unwiredworld.cc. Nothing here right now open to public, but I expect that I will eventually start posting info on various wireless hardware & software & applications. I expect that it will, primarily, be 802.11b based. Bluetooth seems pretty worthless to me, to be honest. Looked into/thought about starting a wireless network in Detroit using automotive company funding, but OnStar(GM) and WingCast(Ford) beat me to it, and I don't have the capital to go it alone.
I did some quick calculations, based on average cost, and I think it was ~80 802.11b nodes to cover the Detroit area that it would have cost about $15M for the intial network rollout with full Detroit coverage. Expected 4 - 5 years to profitability (assuming automotive companyprimary customer subscription rate, of a few 1000/mo) plus local home users. (the most challenging part, I figured would be to secure appropriate locations for the wireless node points(primary.) The design also included redundant components at every point, and would have required a little blackbox development...)
There is also Air2Lan in Dallas, I think. This one is a Cisco baby. 802.11b based as well.
Also did some work with PC-104 technology as a blackbox bridge/router CPE for a wirelessnetwork at relatively low cost using off-the-shelf components.
I may be reached at :seattlewireless@cutterjohn.net
Not much content on the websites, but dems da breaks. Working on a dynamic content delivery program, currently in Perl (gotta fix that soon, Perl is annoying...) Most likely will move it to a C/C++ or Java (Perl/Python are not gonna cut it...) based program, and a SQL db datasource of some type. (Currently MySQL, but I don't care for MySQL either, so I'll probably move to PostgreSQL.) Also currently on Linux, which I'll stay on until FreeBSD has better SMP.
There are a couple of good wireless mailing lists, but I don't have the address handy right now. I think I found them off of a link from the boardwatch site, but I haven't had the time to bother looking at it in ages. Seems like a fair number of rural ISPs were already using quite a bit of wireless.
Airport: technically, this is the OEM connector version of the bronze card from Orinoco(WaveLAN.) you could always extend range by adding the range extender antenna.
