yea sure no problem and it was was sata but i used the ide option in my mother board.
but i use a wirles router. but dont use the wireles on it so its ether net broad band cable what ever u want to call it. point is its high speed its from com cast so there u go .
and i didn't have it plugged into internet so it wouldn't send any info to apple . i heard not to have it pluged in

also i have noticed a problem i have to have the disc in to get mac osx to run if not i get b0 error