I blegged some weeks ago for advice on whether to go with cable or wireless,

assuming, I mean, that I wanted to set up a home network, WHICH OF COURSE I

ABSOLUTELY DO NOT.

Now I’m breaking the hearts of people who wrote in at that time recommending

wireless. Sorry, but I read all the e-mails I got on that topic — there

were a couple of hundred, as I recall — including the ones that assured me

that having a wireless network would double my income, lengthen my lifespan,

and improve my sex life. The strong consensus I got was that for an

ordinary domestic ethernet network, cable is more secure, more capacious,

and not much more troublesome to install. And I can STILL have a wireless

link for my laptop. So I went with cable. I mean to say, I WOULD have gone

with cable, if…