If I have wireless Internet on a laptop and visit a home that does not, can I use a phone line?
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No. Need analog modem for phone line
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yes:\nyou can use\nhttp://www.ip2location.com/free.asp
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You cannot use a dial up service with a router. you can connect your lan cable not your phone cable.
808950
Nothing. Nowaday, new laptops all have wireless built-in. So you need not do anything to your laptop. \n\nYou will need to get a wireless router to be setup after your modem. Get the more popular brand like D0Link or Linksys as they follows the industrial standard.
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You can buy a wireless router to connect wireless devices within your home/office, such as MP3 players, a laptop in another room, etc.\n\nHowever, you still need an ISP to connect to the internet.  They act as your gateway, connecting without them is impossible (for all but the most uber of geeks, anyway).
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nopes.. DSL box /modem use the phone line as input, but do totally different things..hence you cannot use them in each others place
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Yes.  There are attachments that will let a cell phone function as a "modem".  But don't expect high speed.\n\nCheck with your local wireless provider or phone store to see what's available in your area.
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u go 2 the control panel, then go to internet connections, then click new connection wizard, it should give u the option of wireless or landline.  then u just set it up, its not to complicated
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There are regular wireless networks which are usually based on the IEEE 802.11 a/b/g wireless standard and will work with your regular wireless card in your notebook. You can setup a wireless network in your home using this kind of equipment. \n\nThen there are Wi-Fi networks which are actually wireless broadband networks. Some cities use these for their municipal workers so they can access the Internet and city resources from their vehicles. This service is being extended to consumers in some areas for a price so you can get wireless Internet access from your laptop all over the city. Another example of Wi-Fi is Verizon's broadband wireless service. In theory, you can get wireless Internet access from your laptop almost anywhere in the country even while you're on the road using a special PC card supplied by Verizon. The service cost around $50 a month and the card costs about $200 I think.
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Well, you should be able to get into your router's setup from one of your PCs (methods for this vary, consult the router's  manual) and disable *just* the wireless network. Anyone physically plugged into the router would still be able to get online, so if the laptop is the only thing connecting wirelessly, that would work.
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If you are going through your VPN.. then Yes.. but if you're using your home internet, and not the vpn, then No
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Short answer: No\n\nLong answer: No, and here's why:\n\nUnlike dialup, you don't connect to a specific network with an account with them from any phone line. With high-speed, you connect straight to the ISP. If it's a place that offers free high-speed, then sure, you can use it. However, you can't just connect to ANY high-speed connection and use it.\n\nExample: You're using Company A for your dialup. Your neighbor has company B. You can go to your neighbor's house and connect to Company A and use your own account (neighbor pays phone usage bill, and you pay internet usage bill).\n\nWith high-speed, though, if you have Company C, and your neighbor has Company D, you will ONLY connect to Company D from your neighbor's.
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not unless u have a telephone network setup not via the standard telephone lines, so the simple answer would be No since u would need some good hardware to do what your suggesting.
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There are three methods you can use. \n\n1. If your laptop is wireless enabled, you can find either 'hotspots' in public places, or an unsecured wireless network, and log onto that, giving you internet access. \n\n2. You can buy a data card, a PCMCIA card which goes into one of the slots on your laptop. You insert a mobile phone sim card, and off you go. Both Vodaphone and T-Mobile in the UK do decent ones on contract.\n\n3. If you have the software CD that came with your mobile, you can use it asa modem via either a cable connection (USB), the Infra-Red port on the laptop or, if the laptop has it, bluetooth. \n\nAny one of those options will do the trick. For convenience, the data card is the best, if most expensive, option - you have to buy the card or sign a contract to get a free one, although the cost of transferring data is quite small.... I have a T-Mobile GSM card, which cost £160 when it was new, but I get 100Mb of data a month free. The mobile phone route is the cheapest in terms of equipment, but make sure you check how much your phone provider will charge you for receiving data - it can be quite expensive per meg of data transferred.
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There's several carriers that have a wireless card you can place into your laptop and connect to their wireless service.  Such as Verizon.  However, such service can be very expensive.\n\nAdditionally, Cell Phones and PDAs (like Blackberries) are offering better internet services as well that you can use to browse the web from.  These too can be very expensive.
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no you cant its either broadband or a second line
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To use the Internet in your home, you need an account with an Internet Service Provider (ISP). This will generally be dialup (over the phone line), cable (from the cable TV company), or DSL (from the phone company). For dialup, you use a modem to connect your computer to the phone line. Most computers have a modem built in. For cable and DSL, you need a separate cable or DSL modem, and a router. Then you use a network cable to plug your PC into the router. (Most computers have a network card included or built in.) Your ISP will probably offer the modem and router for rent or sale, or you can buy them yourself.\n\nIf you have a neighbor with a wireless network, they might let you use it from your PC.