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Originally Posted by fosterzmom  Are those costly? I have an external DSL modem on my home computer. Will I need it? |
new laptops generally come with both an ethernet card so you can connect to your DSL and a modem so you can connect to a phone line and yours also has wireless access, so you have 3 options to get online but you need to subscribe to a service for the DSL and phoneline/modem access whereas with the wireless if your neighbot or someone close to you has an unsecured line your wireless will pick it up and allow you to access the internet via the other people's subscription.
If you lock on to your laptop and it does not find the nteworks by itself, just rightclick on the icon and you will see an option for "view available wireless networks" click on that and it will show you all the networks in the area and also tell you if they are secured or unsecured. Choose one of the unsecured ones with the highest signal strenght and you should be in business. Hope this helps.