Re: Internet access

GL wrote:

Hello Malke,
The shore house hardware is verizon DSL through ethernet cable. That
is all that is there. They do not have any wireless router, therefore
I thought that plugging in the Ethernet cable is how I would have to
access the internet. Yet do I have to have an IP address from the
owners of this shore house? This IP/DNS that may automatically be set
up on my laptop, is there anyway to check? I have an HP pavilion which
has an integrated wireless card (which makes me think it is pretty up
to date with hardware and software) it runs home edition XP. I am not
concerned with wireless at all just would like to access the internet.
Thank you for your advice and any more that you can provide.
GL

If the shore house has a router (wired, not wireless) all you would do
is plug an ethernet cable into your laptop and to one of the free ports
on the router. The router normally does DHCP and will give your
computer a private IP address and you'll be able to get on the Internet
without installing anything on your machine. To see whether your laptop
is set to get IP/DNS automatically on the ethernet adapter, go to
Network Connections where you should see entries for your network
adapters. Right-click on the ethernet adapter and choose Properties. In
the box that you'll get, double-click the TCP/IP entry and you'll see
whether it is set to automatic.

If the shore house doesn't have a router but their computer is connected
directly to the Verizon DSL modem, have the shore house owner (or you)
ask Verizon how that would be handled. DSL, unlike cable, requires a
username/password and naturally that would not be on your computer.
Verizon may also lock their modem to the MAC address of the network
adapter on the computer where their service was set up. I have no idea
and Verizon would be the ones to ask.

Malke
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