Arrived home this evening to find... the missing box of arcade stuff! It's the "hardware" box, which includes all the cams, bolts, washers, and screws along with the monitor mounting brackets and the coin door. There was a hand-written note on the box which said, "Shipper ok'd to deliver." I can only assume this means that the box was found and they called SlikStik to return it and SlikStik said to go ahead and send it on to me. Anyway it's all in good condition so that's a relief. No word yet from SlikStik on the re-shipment of the rest of the cabinet... They were supposed to send me an email last week saying they had sent it off. I'll call tomorrow to get futher details.

Also arriving today were the matching Linksys WRT54G wireless routers. They're very hackable and support some interesting configurations. I'll be using one to replace my current access point. Bob is going to configure the other as a bridge and use it to support the wired network in his room. We've currently got Bob's old one supporting the wired network in the living room. So the media server, xbox, and audiotron are all wired into a WRT54G which talks to the access point.

The new hardware will allow for some significant speed and security improvements on the network. All three wireless nodes are now 802.11/g compatible so that's a 5x increase in bandwidth. Also, the bridges are 100bT compatible, so the wired network in the arcade room will be an order of magnitude faster. And we'll be adding MAC filtering and WEP, so you can't see what pr0n I'm downloading from down the block.