Ya ... what ebrindele said. ;]

I have them both installed.

homeip is a very simple, nice looking, small footprint desktop applet. That is the one I have on all the time. I found it tricky to install though. Hopefully the author has worked out all the dependency issues.

iphome is a simple but larger footprint applet that gives a little more info. I switch that on if I am having issues as it tells me the Tx and Rx errors and indicates whether my issues are due signal reception or bad configuration somewhere.

iphome has been around as long as the Nokia tablets have existed. homeip is pretty new but has nifty transparency.

Be aware that some APs do get into some confused state that allow you to connect with them but don't let traffic though. I have had that situation where the only thing to do was to reboot the AP and all was good again. It sounds like this was not the scenario in MP2100's case since you could connect fine with a laptop but something to watch for that has nothing to do with the tablet but rather buggy AP firmware. I have had a lot of luck in connecting my tablet to strange APs.