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Carefully consider the pros and cons between wired and wireless. I would stay away from wireless, if possible. It will take a hell of a mess of wiring to become cost-effective to replace with wireless. You can later on acquire an access point to be wired to your router if you need the feature. Wired LAN will be almost foolproof to set up and work with, almost impossible for neighbors to eavesdrop or exploit. Which cannot be said about wireless.
If you need to set up a couple clusters of nodes in different areas of the home, you don't have to wire everything from the central point. You can run one wire from modem to switch, or switch to switch, and branch where needed. Conventional 100Mbps will be plenty to share. If you only need two or a few computers away from the central point, but close to each other, consider using a four-pair cable to run two 10Mbps lines (2 pairs each). That will still be plenty per node.
If you get DSL, and you keep the plain old telephone service, please use the filter supplied. If not supplied, get one. More important than reducing some noise on the POTS, it protects your phone form the high peak voltage used for DSL. I've personally run into a few situations where the customer subscribed to DSL and had their phone go dead in a week after delivery. Each time, adding the filter and getting a new phone has solved the prolem.
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