It's not BlueTooth or 802.11b, but having stumbled across this in Best Buy at for about half the price of the latter, this product will adequately fill the gap between now and when the BlueTooth/802.11b markets firm up ...

I was able to get two NetBlasters (one openned, but working fine) and a PC card at Best Buy for $275, with $90 in rebates (which I accept as being many moons away); all of the 802.11b base stations available(which do offer DHCP, Firewall, etc., and are 11Mbps/sec) -- DLink, LinkSys, SMC, 3COM -- are $225 and up (after shipping is tacked on). The PC cards range $100 to $200 (again with shipping). Granted, these are coming down in price and going up in functionality (I particularly like the upcoming LinkSys with the wireless access integrated with their popular Cable/DSL router with a 4-port switch -- back order at buy.com, $250), but I ended up with 2 NetBlasters (one home, one office) and the card for less money -- and, frankly, the 2 Mbps adequately delivers the DSL connections both at home (where the degrading Qwest signal is easily the bottleneck) and on the faster office DSL (where we're not even getting the 1.5 Mbps we're supposed to be getting).
I'm primarily using it as an extension of those DSL connections and have no illusions about fat Quake action.
(PS - didn't see any BlueTooth readily available -- but I know they exist).

Having briefly used a NetBlaster on a friends notebook almost a year ago, I knew that the thing worked. My friend had spent a tidy sum at that time (last august, I think it was) - $400 or $500, somewhere in the middle. My own equipment has been no different. The range is decent; I get good performance all around my house and office, up to roughly 150 feet (I don't carry a tape measure with me, so take that figure for what it is). As for obstructions, I got a full signal two floors above and four rooms over from the NetBlaster in my office.

If you're really concerned about fast file transfers over your LAN, this may not be the best thing for you. The 802.11b is faster and the BlueTooth (supposedly) is even faster than that. (I saw a video on news.com with DVD movies being fed to a laptop via BlueTooth PC card -- uber-cool -- fact or fiction?).

If you're like me, and don't enjoy drilling holes into rented walls to run Cat5 for sharing the DSL with the upstairs -- and you can find a deal like I found at Best Buy -- this might be just the thing to tide you over until the BlueTooth vs. 802.11b battle shakes out or the prices come down.

PS -- real quickly on the drivers:
I've got it working pretty smoothly on a Windows2000 laptop and have seen it working fine in 98; I can't speak for either the Desktop adapter, or any other OS issues ... and I'm still working on an efficient way of switching from home NetBlaster and office NetBlaster; I've only had to switch twice so far ...

Recommended: Yes