Drive-By Wi-Fi Guide

Wi-Fi happened to me this way: In 1999, I finally got broadband. I loved it instantly. Prior to 1999, my wife Carol and I shared a dialup account, but it was gruesomely slow, and I did most of my Internet work at work, where we had a dual T1 connection. (Fast!) Having something almost that fast at home was intoxicating-and once Carol had spent five minutes in my chair looking something up on the Web, she wanted it too.
What Carol didn’t want was for me to punch holes in the walls to pull Ethernet cable down from my office to hers. Our house was old, and quirky, and muchpatched. We completely re-piped it in 1994 and had uncovered so many construction weirdnesses in the process that we were loath to poke at anything for fear of uncovering even more. download link