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You can just buy a starter kit and add as many Hcards that you can afford.

That is because they lock the service to your MAC address, get a router and clone the MAC address, follow the instructions. a ASUS N16 router is pretty good and fairly cheap.
Plenty of people here can help.

It's not in the renter's agreement, but it is a restriction of the ISP. They claim that if I were to attempt to use a switch, it would not work on their network. I don't know anything about networking, so I was just accepting what they told me as true.

And no, this is not at a university.

 Lolwut ?! Is that actually in your renters agreement ? That's an absurd and technically idiotic stipulation

 What's preventing you, for example, setting up a firewall on that one ethernet port and running your own LAN segment on your own switch ?

My apartment has a single ethernet jack that I use for my desktop, and I am not permitted to have a router or switch.

Agreed - To expand upon this a bit.  Its been my experience that the Pi's don't play nice with WiFi/USB devices.  They may work for a bit- but will drop the connection and go to sleep basically.  Once I started to use the ethernet - my Pi's rock solid.  

Anyway, I guess the next best thing would be a gaming adapter.  

Are you sure you can't run an ethernet cable at all?  That would be best - by light years. Ok, enough about that...

PS - I'm not sure I understand the need for a powered usb hub - if you're just powering the Pi, wouldn't it be cheaper just to get a powered usb plug?  If you're like me, you probably have ten laying about already.  They come with nearly everything you buy at this point: cell phones, iPods/iPhones, misc electronics, etc.  In fact - I've had the best results using my iPhone 5 powered adapter - it throws enough juice the way of the Pi (note: the one that I got with the Pi's bundle kit directly from AdaFruit had all sorts of problems in this regard/very frustrating for a while.)

Note: A Wi-Fi adapter will probably need more power than the Raspberry Pi USB port can provide, especially if there is a large distance from the Wi-Fi adapter to the Wi-Fi Access Point, or it is transferring large amounts of data. Therefore, you may need to plug the Wi-Fi adapter into a powered USB hub.

I posted this video a few pages back of the screen output from our rig: http://youtu.be/naW5uGHLbZE - added it to the OP.
The order for 100TH and August product is all one batch, and its being produced now.  The first 4 full rigs shipped to Tytus today.  I expect the rest to finish assembly very soon (though specific finish date has not been provided by factory).  We have no reason to expect production delays at this point, or that we won't have enough product.  

Logistically there two challenges for each effort:
For 100TH, assembling, configuring and running all those rigs will take time.  We are trying to cut down on that by: preassembling racks, prewiring them with PDU, switch, patch cords, power cords & power supplies.  We are pre-imaging SD cards for all the rPIs for both 100TH and customer orders.  I have all the racks, PDU's, switches, PSUs, patch cords, power cords, SD cards, rPi's and a 16x SD duplicator all in hand.
For August orders the main bottleneck will be testing for bad cards.  We will try to fire up as many as we can to test simultaneously.  We can see fairly immediately if there is a card with bad chips, so hopefully we don't need to test for very long - maybe only a few hours, or until the unit shows it can come up to operating temperature with no bad behavior.  Then out the door they should go.
I have two different ship teams and a build team for 100TH.

I think you'd be better off with a gaming adapter (ethernet port to WiFi) than trying to get some random WiFi dongle to work.

I think you'd be better off with a gaming adapter (ethernet port to WiFi) than trying to get some random WiFi dongle to work.

Is anyone considering doing a group buy with shares?  I can't swing $8k right now, but could probably do 4 or 2...  I haven't really seen anything like that offered, but would will to work with a trusted member on something if there is interest.  Probably use escrow if possible...

Thoughts?

I posted this video a few pages back of the screen output from our rig: http://youtu.be/naW5uGHLbZE - added it to the OP.

I will be getting a powered USB hub and a Wi-Fi dongle for the RPi for internet access, as I do not have any free ethernet ports and I'm not permitted to have a switch.

I posted this video a few pages back of the screen output from our rig: http://youtu.be/naW5uGHLbZE - added it to the OP.

The order for 100TH and August product is all one batch, and its being produced now.  The first 4 full rigs shipped to Tytus today.  I expect the rest to finish assembly very soon (though specific finish date has not been provided by factory).  We have no reason to expect production delays at this point, or that we won't have enough product.  

Logistically there two challenges for each effort:
For 100TH, assembling, configuring and running all those rigs will take time.  We are trying to cut down on that by: preassembling racks, prewiring them with PDU, switch, patch cords, power cords & power supplies.  We are pre-imaging SD cards for all the rPIs for both 100TH and customer orders.  I have all the racks, PDU's, switches, PSUs, patch cords, power cords, SD cards, rPi's and a 16x SD duplicator all in hand.

For August orders the main bottleneck will be testing for bad cards.  We will try to fire up as many as we can to test simultaneously.  We can see fairly immediately if there is a card with bad chips, so hopefully we don't need to test for very long - maybe only a few hours, or until the unit shows it can come up to operating temperature with no bad behavior.  Then out the door they should go.

I have two different ship teams and a build team for 100TH.

And of course, if you distribute any open source software you'll have the sources immediately available?