This document summarizes the requirements and options for building a wireless LAN hotspot, including different types of wireless access points and antennas. It discusses both hardware-based and software-based wireless access point solutions. It also describes different types of homemade antennas that can be used, such as can, biquad, and yagi antennas. Finally, it lists some authentication, proxy, and bandwidth limiting software that can be used on the server, such as FreeRadius, Squid, and NoCat.