This may be of interest to Skip and others playing with wireless.
Microsoft is developing a new technology called "Virtual Wi-Fi". It
virtualizes a single wireless card to appear to the user as multiple
cards. Benefits cited:

# With VirtualWiFi, you can connect to a guest's machine or play
games over an ad hoc network, while surfing the web via an
infrastructure network.
# You can use VirtualWiFi to connect your ad hoc network, which may
contain many nodes, to the Internet using only one node.
# VirtualWiFi can help make your home infrastructure network elastic
by extending its access to nodes that are out of range of your home
WiFi Access Point.

I don't know much more than that, but you can get a little more info
at

http://research.microsoft.com/netres...fi/default.htm


It looks rather experimental at this point. I don't have a spare
machine to install it on right now, so I'd be interested in reports
from anyone that plays with it.

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