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Re: Wireless network
The PCI card will be easy to fit ... but I'd still go with USB. It's just easier and more flexible. You never know when someone's going to come round with a laptop and you want to stick them on your network for the day ... or one of your PCs packs up and you replace it with a laptop ..... or your dad gets his new laptop and you decide that that means you aren't going to need your mum's PC any more.
Even as an IT guy who builds PCs regularly, I'm still going to buy a USB adaptor for the second PC that I'm going to put on my wireless network.
Also (and I haven't looked at the Netgear in detail), bear in mind that it will definitely have to be one with a strong signal as you have such a big house with lots of walls and floors blocking the signal from the top to bottom of the house. Having said that, it's not a bad idea to get one that AOL say they actually approve (that's quite unusual so make the most of it!). Of the two, I'd go with the Netgear, purely as that's a very popular model so likely to be free of bugs now .... and I'd never even heard of Thomson making wireless routers.
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