I can see your reasoning in this now. For me, though I have to park my car out of range of the remote control, however it's just within range for 802.11b.

I'm curious how draining the wireless access point is. If I could find a low powered one, that I could leave on at all times, that'd be preferable. If it could stay running for two or three days and then shutdown for inactivity after that, it would work for me.

I'm just not sure how many amps per hour they're drawing these days. I wonder if an ethernet converter would draw less power than a full-fledged access point?

Greg