My wrap-up report will cover mostly non-networking related products that caught my eye as I made my way through the small, but surprisingly busy show floor. But first, I wanted to talk about two more WLAN products...

Taiwan-based ASUS is known primarily for its motherboards, but also wants to be recognized for its networking product capabilities. During my tour of their off-floor meeting room, I came upon the smallest 11b Access Point that I've seen yet! The WL-330 Pocket Wireless Access Point was actually introduced at September's Computex show. It's about the size of a pack of Camels (the cigarettes, not the animal), uses a Marvell 11b chipset and is a fully featured access point that includes WDS-based bridging and repeating, as well as an AP Client mode. Street price should be $50 - $60 when it becomes available next month. ASUS said they've even found a really small power adapter that's about the size of a matchbox and only takes up one outlet space on a power strip. The AP is even smaller than BuffaloTech's WLA2-G54.

I also saw ASUS' WL-160 USB2.0 / 11g adapter, which uses essentially the same-sized package as the WL-330. It's based on a chipset from Envara, has built-in diversity antennas and comes available in late December, early January for between $60 - $75.