Stylish-looking new wireless access point from Sony that you might actually want to have around the house, unlike most other, less aesthetically-pleasing WAPs that are on the market. The PCWA-A500 also operates on 802.11a, the higher-speed cousin of 802.11b, which is nice, but Sony should have made it support both 802.11a and 802.11b, like those dual-band wireless access points from Linksys and D-Link.