I understand some of this was for the other guy that posted in here but most of what you guys said went right over my head...LOL.  I need to get the bascis of this stuff.  I know what VM is but don't have it installed yet, just played with it at school.

So let me ask again cause this could derail the project for the time being.  Will I need a seperate internet connection? Money is tight and my wife doesn't understand what I am doing in the first place and adding a second line would require me to remove one of my nuts.

I want to learn it.  Since I am attending school for Network Security and Computer Forensics I feel that I should know this stuff.

Even though I have a internship at a local Computer Forensics company I doubt he will hire me cause he is a one man show.  So I have to keep my options open and increase my knowledge of the fileds I am attending school for.