Rob Flickenger and his friends, on a slow March 2003 night at Sebastopol, were hunched up together and discussing things over coffee. Rob wanted to have a
fast internet connection, but not just a fast one - he wanted fast wireless access on this coffee joint! This is how they did it just by using an AP and a socket for a lamplight bulb hanging atop their heads during that time.
The package involved an AP about the size of a common light bulb, only larger, but the first problem with this is getting access to the socket without using CAT5. They were facing a formidable problem, but this did not stop them to fulfill their dreams of providing wireless fidelity network access to this place, a place which was seldom closed and always open for guys like them. With a spot like this, its like having a dream honeymoon with WiFi on the best scenic spots in
romantic France!
Then the solution came to them as if it were a light - no, not a light, but THE light!
Powerline Ethernet and Siemens' SpeedStream series, these were the components of that light spectrum which came to them from the heavens above, and the latter was the reason for packaging an AP with the size of a light bulb so as to fit in a socket for, yes, light bulbs as being virtually attainable! Plus, the wireless network goes directly across and straight to the AC power, thus a Powerline Ethernet adapter located in the same power circuit could easily provide wireless network access to any number of ACs plugged to the remaining sockets!
