Thanks to you both. Before I get anything, I'm going to know it backwards and frontwards. That's how I operate.

I don't like complicated. My life is too complicated as it is with taking care of Alan. Yesterday he got the Crow Boot. Yikes, the size of this monster took my breath away. It's twice the width of the old crow boot from ten years ago. Anyway, I'm not ready to buy anything right now, I like to ask questions first, then I like to go and ask the guys in the place, then I go online and ask more questions, lol. You would think that by the age of 68 I would be an expert on all things computer by now wouldn't you? I do know stuff, like animating videos, and making magical frames around people's photos on facebook. You know, the stuff that 10 year olds can do but old folks can't.

It impresses the heck out of my friends who go 'How do you do that". I shake my head. If they only know what was actually out there it would blow their minds.

I was at a senior center on my Kindle Fire and some 20 year old smart mouth little person came over to me and saw that I had a cell phone and a tablet. She looked at me in awe and said "Youuuuuu know how to use a cell phone?, my mother can't use one". I said "how old is your mother"? she said "55". I said "shame on your mother' then I whipped out my Kindle Fire and she exclaimed "Youuuu know how to use a tablet??" and I said "Yeah, and I know how to use a computer and I make videos on youtube, what do you think of that'???

I left her with her mouth open.

Now really!!! what is wrong with young people today, do they think we are all idiots?? rofl.

"But if I choose to do the wired ethernet way, am I correct in assuming I just plug in an ethernet cable from the All In One to one of the ports on the router and that's it?? I don't have to configure, re-configure, etc.?"

That was my experience - my Linux laptop works that way.

If you want to access your router via WiFi you will need to know its IP address - usually they start with 192.168. There is information about finding the IP address here; http://www.computerworld.com/article...me-router.html .

Once you have done that you can contact your router using your browser (this might need an Ethernet connection the first time). It will ask for a password, which is often set by default to "admin" - it would be a good idea to change that to something more secure.

It is then a matter of following the instructions. This can be a bit fiddly - in my case my Billion Wifi router needed to know the username and password given to me by my ISP. You will probably be able to download a manual for your router, which could help.

The router should then know that you are a trusted WiFi client - your machine will automatically connect to the router by WiFi with no need to re-enter passwords, etc. This works for me with my Windows 7 laptop.