Stick is a nslu2, that serves as a dial-up gateway in low-power and/or harsh resource conditions. Running off a USB stick, thus the name.

Stick has a wireless dongle, which is used in Ad-Hoc mode.

ESSID: stick
Cell: 00:60:1D:01:23:45
Frequency: 2.412 GHz
IP: 10.1.1.1

It is also currently used as a mpd server.