Need advice on wireless adapters

Find out what the park is putting in before you buy anything. You may be able to use your current router as an access point for the wired PCs. But remember everyone will be using the same source so the connection may be a little slower that your current one.

A quick Google search reveals that there is a ClearWave Communications in Illinois. They offer wireless broadband.

Someone stating that it is 802.11b service might mean that it is a general area WI-FI that only requires a wireless-b or wireless-b/g network adapter on each computer. No router required for each individual residence. Your management company should be able to give you information or a contact number regarding hardware requrements for the service.

I have one more question. Since it will be public (park wide) should I have any security concerns?

Like you said it's public so everyone can use it and I'm sorry to say but there is always someone to foul stuff up. The same problem that people have in internet cafes apply. So I would not use it for entering bank, credit card or doing your taxes online. But you can use dialup for these things, it will be slow but more secure and you can get 10hrs free a month from netscape I think. But use the wireless for surfing and downloading and between the two you'll be secure with hispeed. Your ahead of the game in my mind.

Hi,
To ensure security on the shared Wi fi n/w please verify the following:
1) Manner in which IP addresses are provided to users (i.e dynamic through a DHCP or static) Static is not a great idea on a shared n/w as it allows a novice who understands IP addressing to snoop into your machines.
2) Please check if your administrators will be using Mac authentication (extremely secure as it will limit the users who can access this n/w to a known universe and will not allow outsiders to access the n/w)Again being a open park this is unlikely. You will probably have the park mgmt sellling access accounts that use a radius. After all they would like to maximise their revenue
3) Access to https sites should not be an issue if you regulary clear your history and cache and do not accept cookies. Make it a point to ensure that access to your drives is not allowed (i.e. disable sharing on your disks). If you dont do this the risk on your DSL n/w is nearly the same unless your SP is providing you with shared firewall and virus protection.
4) As a policy make it a point to keep your machine off or at least disable the wireless adapters when you do not want to access the net.