My goodness, the telephone line seems like it would be such a waste for wireless. Ethernet, now that's a noble cause!

To use ethernet with the Rio Central, you need one of the supported USB-to-ethernet adapters. A couple of supported models are listed in the "About" menu on the Central, or you can search for "USB Ethernet Adapter" on this BBS and hopefully find one or two others that were successful. After that, it's a question of setting up wireless bridges and such, and that's downright tricky to get working right.

Personally, I'd go to whatever trouble it takes run real wires anyway. So much simpler and easier in terms of configuration, and much more reliable.

Anyway, before you worry about *any* of that, please make sure to get the latest software for the Central. It fixes a bug with reboots during multiple-CD-record mode. It's at the rioaudio.com site. Make sure to get the smaller of the two downloads (the one without the updated CDDB) because others have reported file corruption with the larger one.

(By the way, you'll need to burn that as an ISO image onto a CD-R in order for it to work with the Central.)