[KLUG Members] Wireless Access Point recommendation?

[Adam Williams]

>my school has a 802.11b wireless network all over campus (they didn't 
>wire the dorms, just went straight to wireless). to make it secure, 
>they don't use WEP, but they use a Cisco VPN. it uses 168-bit 
>encryption. I do have to say, that even though they use only windows 
>servers here (sadly), the IT manager has a pretty secure network here. 
>He uses lotsa Cisco appliances, for the firewall, bandwidth management, 
>and some other things.

I agree, there are many Open Source VPN solutions.  Simply connect the
WAP to a neutered network subnet with a VPN server sitting between that
subnet and the real net.  Wireless users simply have to establish a VPN
in order to actually do anything.  

I think the whole WEP-encryption-sucks argument is pretty dumb, that
isn't where encryption belongs.  Do you sent important information
unencrypted over the Internet?  What's the difference?