The only alternatives I've seen are to hang an AirPort Base Station off my remaining free port on the router, or to replace the router with a wireless one. Are there any less expensive devices to hang off that free port to give me wireless? (I've not seen any, hence this query...)
The Linksys WAP11, if you can find it, is a single ethernet port wireless access point. They should be pretty cheap on eBay.
The ORiNOCO AP500 and/or RG1000 (again, if you can find it) or something like that are the equivalent of the AP Base Station. They even work with the AirPort config utilities. Some of the other ORiNOCO stuff might be useful too.
I believe either of those can also be configured as a bridge if you ever decide you want to connect your LAN to a wider WLAN, as opposed to splitting a WLAN off your LAN.
There are other solutions, but I haven't been looking lately. I'm sure D-Link and some of the cheaper PC-centric solutions will work, if you do your research.
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