I'm finally coming out of the stone age and getting DSL, or Cable one or the other. i'm trying a 30 day trial thing of DSL from Verizon and I gotta have a network card to hook the modem thingie into the computer.
After much research (ten minutes on google) it appears they are all basically the same.
Am I right? Does it make any difference whether I get the $17 one, or the $50 dollar one? I ain't gonna be doing nothing important on the computer. I'm mainly just tired of not watching the videos because I don't have an extra life time to wait on them to D/L.
I'm looking at a Linksys one. supposed to be something like 10/100 un-duplexed or somethign and double that if it is duplexed.???
Does that gibberish need to mean anything to me or is it just weird stuff that I need't concern my tiny brain with ?
Also.. if I dump the DSL and go to Cable will whatever network card work with either of them or are there different types?
recommendations?
p.s. please don't recommend the $80,000 one that comes with the automatic "butt-un-numb-er" because I just can't see me ever being that interested in the internet. I just want it to work, not cause problems, and do it's thing while I'm doing mine.
After much research (ten minutes on google) it appears they are all basically the same.
Am I right? Does it make any difference whether I get the $17 one, or the $50 dollar one? I ain't gonna be doing nothing important on the computer. I'm mainly just tired of not watching the videos because I don't have an extra life time to wait on them to D/L.
I'm looking at a Linksys one. supposed to be something like 10/100 un-duplexed or somethign and double that if it is duplexed.???
Does that gibberish need to mean anything to me or is it just weird stuff that I need't concern my tiny brain with ?
Also.. if I dump the DSL and go to Cable will whatever network card work with either of them or are there different types?
recommendations?
p.s. please don't recommend the $80,000 one that comes with the automatic "butt-un-numb-er" because I just can't see me ever being that interested in the internet. I just want it to work, not cause problems, and do it's thing while I'm doing mine.