Cabling Standards Documents Overview provides an index to world-wide structured cabling standards. This article was all I needed to go from 'dunce' to cat 5 wiring ace when I wired my house lately. I remember a nice rainy afternoon being lulled by the satisfying thunk of my punch-down tool terminating all those nice LAN wires. There are several competing approaches for home wireless LANs. Each has an industry consortium promoting products based on its preferred approach.
Some companies are members of more than one consortium.
The Bluetooth SIG represents the consortium of vendors and interested parties promoting products based on Bluetooth. It includes a useful Guide to Wireless Local Area Technology Organizations . IEEE 802.11 LANs provides a good description of how the 802.11 protocols work. Data Networking provides an overview of the wireless LAN approaches from the former Marketing Chairman of the HomeRF Working Group. You can easily find out whether DSL is offered in your area.