the thing is, we dont have a phone jack in my upper living room. it is located in the kitchen, so since i have DSL, i have this phone cord running across my floor for now just to have internet. i guess i could go get a wireless router, a wireless card, and the stuff i need and just have the router and modem in the kitchen, but i just hate the huge expense. also, i dont have a huge bit of bandwidth, i have a 1.5 meg connection, and as i understand, i will go down to a 1 meg connection going wireless.