He wrote this thin, small volume to explain to readers why wireless networking is a community asset, and bring them to speed on the technology available to create a wireless hot spot. Community here means a collection of people, like in a city or neighborhood. wireless network protocol that complicated, but IEEE 802.11b and the products are popping up around it (like Apple's AirPort and similar offerings from Lucent Technologies and Cisco Systems) is fairly easy to make and integrate into the tissue Wall. - David Topics covered: Means of providing wireless network access (mainly Internet access) to rooms, buildings, communities and entire geographic regions to several kilometers in diameter. Design and placement of access points, as well as a network node configuration, which is discussed in detail, as well as legal and political aspects of building a wireless network for public use.