Sorry, quick note, you do have one other option for home networking, and that's to use something like Netgear's (Shameless corporate plug for a company I have no faith in anymore, though Netgear is good stuff

) phoneline networking. I think it operates at up to 10mbps using your phone line in the house, and it does not interrupt telephone useage. Those cards are like, 40 bucks each I think.