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    Wireless without router nearby.....

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by Melanie, Jul 8, 2008.

  1. Melanie

    Melanie Notebook Guru

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    So let's say I want to take my laptop with me to a place that doesn't have wireless setup's...such as a friend's house. How would I go about getting internet then? Would I have to subscribe to a separate internet account just for my laptop?
     
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  2. Hiker

    Hiker Notebook Deity

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    Only thing I can think of is dial up with a 800 number (PeoplePC $10 a month?) or an aircard from a cell phone provider.
     
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  3. Hep!

    Hep! sees beauty in everything

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    Either plug into their ethernet or get as hiker said, an aircard from a cell phone provider.

    Alternatively, what I have for on the go, is I use my phone as a bluetooth modem and dial in with my ISP's free dial up service offered to all cable customers. I'd assume you could do the same with a free 1000 hours of AOL or whatever too.
     
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  4. Melanie

    Melanie Notebook Guru

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    Do you need a cell phone to use the aircard? cause I don't have a cell phone. And I have DSL through AT&T,so if I got one of their aircards,would I be able to just connect to that? or would I have to get another service to go with it?
     
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  5. Wirelessman

    Wirelessman Monkeymod

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    I'm assuming that your friend has at least a router and internet service.

    If your friend's router is set with DHCP then you can connect in one of his router's Ethernet ports. If your friend has MAC filtering active, he has either disable it or add you MAC to the network.
     
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  6. bigozone

    bigozone JellyRoll touring now

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    cheap and easy solution..

    buy your friend a WIFI router as a GIFT ;)
     
    bigozone, Jul 8, 2008
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  7. blue68f100

    blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso

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    Some of att plans have the option to use dial-up, if a traveler.
     
    blue68f100, Jul 10, 2008
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  8. Wirelessman

    Wirelessman Monkeymod

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    Ahhhh, dial-up, it spikes my hair :D
     
    Wirelessman, Jul 10, 2008
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  9. Polarix

    Polarix Notebook Evangelist

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    Polarix, Jul 11, 2008
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  10. Wirelessman

    Wirelessman Monkeymod

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    But you have a limit in download, don't you?
     
    Wirelessman, Jul 11, 2008
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  11. Shyster1

    Shyster1 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    You think that spikes the hair - I remember when we all happily accepted 300baud modems, with acoustic couplers: [​IMG]

    In fact, I distinctly recall being ecstatic the day one of my friends scored a 1,200baud modem, back in the days when this: [​IMG]

    was considered high-tech.
     
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  12. blue68f100

    blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso

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    Yes, Our watches now have more cpu power than those high-teck devices, now. Boy has the hp changed. Most all of our desktop pc hav more HP than some of the mainframes used.
     
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  13. Wirelessman

    Wirelessman Monkeymod

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    And I still want more, I'm waiting for a 4GHz laptop, with GDDR3 RAM, 500GB HDD, that's all what I want now :D
     
    Wirelessman, Jul 11, 2008
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