After my great experience with Mikrotik equipment I would not touch anything else with a 40 foot pole. I now use it to power my community network in Marlborough and have not looked back. I'm also in the process of setting up a community WISP in the Marlborough Sounds using the same gear, more details will be posted about that on my site as it progresses.

As mentioned above it does ethernet/wireless hotspot, routing, bridging, bandwidth control, firewalling, etc etc all in the one box. About $500 will get you a RouterBOARD 532, CM9 radio card (85mW tx 802.11b/g, 65mW tx 802.11a, -95dBm rx sens.) and a nice metal weatherproof box to house it all. PoE comes standard. The Linksys and D-Link stuff can't even dream of such figures, regardless of firmware mods, and it's miles cheaper than the big-brand options such as Cisco, Proxim and Trango.