[CVALE] Using a wireless router with my Windows and Linux boxes...

[Landon Blake]

I've got a question for the network gurus.

 

I just moved into a new house. There isn't a phone jack even close to
the bedroom we are using as a home office, and AT&T wants $150 to
install a new phone jack in the bedroom.

 

I was thinking I could install a wireless router so I wouldn't need the
additional phone jack. The bonus to this is that I wouldn't have to
plug-in my laptop to get internet!

 

Here is the bad news:

 

I'd have to install wireless network cards on both of my desktops. My
computer runs Debian Linux, while my wife's computer is running Windows
XP.

 

I looked at the following wireless router (I'm using a regular LinkSys
router on both desktop's currently.):

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833124010

 

I have no idea what to do for a wireless network card on the desktops.

 

What I'd like to ask the fellow CVale members is this:

 

-     Can a rookie like myself handle the installation of a wireless
router and wireless network card with a desktop that runs Debian Linux?

-     Is there a specific brand of wireless network card I will need for
the Linux box?

 

If it costs me $300 or $400 to go wireless I might just pay for the
phone jack installation.

 

Thanks for any advice and/or suggestions.

 

Landon

 

P.S. - I hope to be adding another computer to serve as a data backup
for the Debian box in the next year. This will mean a small "home office
network". Maybe this justifies the cost of going wireless?

 

 



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