Muahaha! I now have a wrt54g with a 3rd party BIOS, giving me some rather insane transmit power. Went from 28mw to 250mw. I'm going to buy 15DBI omnidirectional antennas as soon as i can, and set that up on the roof. I'm building a custom case for it, and a rack so it will fit on the old chimney.
I also decided that since V4 is taking so long, and i don't feel like messing with the pain in the tail that the old pyxaron.ath.cx server is, i'll just build another server that i can use while i stop half-using the Xeon and just take it down, reinstall and finish the stupid V4 code.
Whee...