I had to buy a PC-card adapter for my PC, in order to bring a desktop into my wireless network. PC Cards are starting to come out. Compaq, for instance, offers a nice PCI one.
Consumers actually require the better, faster, and more innovative technology.
Dumbed down won't work at home. Count Compaq as dumb. Base stations, too, are few and far between. But it requires a Mac to configure. Once it's running, it supports PCs just as well as Macs.