Fitting Airport Extreme card, easy or hard?

I have intel Mac Pro Tower and I want to fit an Airport Extreme card in it.
I've been told by Cancom (UK Mac dealer) that it is an engineer job and I can't do it myself.
I'm confident with things like this, I fitted ram, hard drives, card etc.
I can buy Airport Extreme card for £25 plus vat, but is it easy to fit? is there an online tutorial somewhere?
Thanks so much guys.

Everyone I've heard of doing this themselves have said it was an easy job with the most difficult thing being getting the aerials right. The Airport and BT cables aren't labelled very well (let alone sometimes have been labelled incorrectly) so your milage may vary.
For the small amount of money they're probably wanting from your I would have them do it. So if/when it doesn't work right you've got someone to complain to.

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