Re: Some help, please?

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If I buy a laptop with a wireless connection, how would I find a so-called
hotspot? Do I have to open up my laptop whenever I am looking for a hotspot?
In front of every Starbucks?

Sorry to be so ignorant in this here 21st century.

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Walter
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"Walter R." <wer25@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have a generic desktop computer/monitor, Intel 1.5 GH, Windows XP Pro
SP2.
I need to travel to other cities. I will be staying in inexpensive motels.

At home I use a cable modem to connect to the internet. Can I take my
desktop computer along and hook it up to the telephone at a motel somehow
to
connect with the internet? I guess I would need to install a telephone
modem
in my computer? How would I get an internet connection? Should I invest
in
a cheap laptop? Would a laptop be better than a desktop?

If this question is too basic, can someone please refer me to the
appropriate newsgroup?

I don't quite know where to start. Can someone point me in the right
direction.

Thank you.
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Walter






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