make sure you've secured it though!

If it isn't, you neighbor can use your connection, or worse.

or some evil little creep with a laptop or PDA running Airshark, who just happens by on his bike or skateboard.

It is. If I need extra security, all I have to do is unplug it. USB is a beautiful thing.

I was forced to go wireless by Mrs Taw she said if we didn't she'd tear up all the lovely conduit and my carefully laid out cabling. In the end I was left with only two wired connections, everything else is wireless. Oh well at least it's secure, as secure as I can make it anyway. I still don't like it though.

I prefer wireless because of the lack of cables. Granted, it would be faster if I had a hardline, but's still fast, the way it is. It's just too much of a pain in the ass to route the network through the floor in my room into my brother's room and back into the old kitchen area where the cable modem is. It's simply way too much hassle. I didn't even have to open up my computer. Although, I'll have to do that anyway when I get my new video card.

Wireless in my situation is horrible. It has to go through three walls, and two are insulated to the outside

Wireless G is plenty fast for most tasks. If you have ADSL, the difference in speed is not noticeable between wired and wireless.

When Wireless N gets standardized, I'm going to upgrade to it. As it stands, Wireless G only cost me $60 (1 wireless interface card and 1 hub)... which was another one of its selling points.

Well let's put it into perspective. My speed is 1/15 the normal speed. I download something here at about 60kb/s, wheras, I can download something downstairs where the modem is at 900kb/s easily

ouchies! I go through a wireless router , a linksys. I've never had speed prooblems with it though.

I know Wolfy.

I can't knock your walls down for you but there are signal boosters out there. You might try that approach. You probably need two but you first might try one and see if there is any appreciable difference.