Decision made to try partial wireless approach

Tonight was spent working on the computer. I was not very successful! I bought a wireless 4 port router and planned to add one computer as a wireless and leave the other three as hard wired. Previously, I could not access the Internet from all three. Tonight, I got that fixed, but could not get the fourth computer wired. I will try a few more things tomorrow. If that does not work, I will return the wireless router with the access point. This will save me $150 now, but Cablevision would charge me $10 a month plus $129 for a 4 port hub! They refused to use my router. Hmmm, I should really try to make the router work.

I have been giving some thought to switching to a linux system, but have decided that I absolutely need the multitude of applications that Windows provides for. Microsoft's newest foray into strangling their customers just makes me sick! They will only allow you to install their Office software on 2 computers. However, I have 5 at home that I use for personal purposes. They are trying to force me into buying 3 copies of their overpriced software. I don't know what to do. I like to install all programs on all computers. Otherwise, I have to turn everything on. No, I guess I could use my main computer as the program server. At most, there would be three people using the computers at the same time. I'll have to think about this later.