...I've actually been able to sleep. Either the guy next door with the radio finally got the point, or he moved out, because the last two nights have been blissfully quiet. Not only that, I've actually slept the whole night through. It's glorious.

In other news, I ordered, and just received, one of these:

http://www.soekris.com/net4826.htm

It's an upgrade for this one that I already have:

http://www.soekris.com/net4521.htm

I've been using the 1000mW 802.11b/g card with the existing one, and by itself it works fine: I have a rock solid signal to the "Free the Net" node one block over. But I also want to run a second wireless interface that I can use to create a wifi network in my apartment. That part has issues: I have an atheros-based cardbus card (Linksys) that I can plug into one of the cardbus slots, and it works, but if I load the thing down with a lot of traffic, the board will spontaneously reboot. No warning from the OS, no nothing: just *pewf*, restart.

I suspect a power supply issue as the same setup works if I use one of my older, lower power cards in place of the 1000mW one. I don't know for sure if it will work any better in the new board, but I think it's worth a try. In nothing else, having a faster processor won't hurt. (The old board runs at 133Mhz. Yes, 133Mhz.)

I also ordered some new antenna cabling. I got a replacement 'pigtail' connector to attach directly to the 1000mW card, via MMCX port instead of the teeny, tiny U.FL port. The new cable also has a different panel-mount connector at the other end which fits exactly into the pre-drilled holes in the case of the Soekris board. This helped to reduce the insertion loss I was getting with the old setup. I probably only gailed a couple dB worth of signal, but the new setup is much sturdier.