I can remember a time when 56k modems came out. I thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. Years have passed and greater things came about. This week I moved and the cable won't be hooked up until the 29th. I signed up for an AOL account for a few days of free Internet. Its unbearable....its almost useless to get on this site with all the images on each page! I'm getting a laptop for Christmas too! Its gonna seem useless until the 29th! Just had to vent! Merry Christmas!!

-Josh

 

When you get the laptop get one with built in wireless.
You may be lucky enough to have a neighbour with an open WAP..... Truly
free internet!!! (you may just have to walk around the place to find
the signal)

I have a co-worker that lives in the next building. He offered to let me use
his WAP while my DSL was relocated. I wasn't able to connect (too far) but
I found another neighbour with an open WAP. It made the 3 days bearable.

The only bad thing about it was that I could only connect from the middle of the living
room. That is fine for a laptop but not for a desktop!... my wife ony put up with
it because she surfs as much as I do!!


P.S. If the laptop comes without wireless you can always buy a card and return at Circuit City/compusa and return it a few days later...:-)
P.S. The connection will be much faster then dialup but large downloads may not work depending on how close you physically are to the WAP.

 

That was the first thing I tried this morning. If my neighbors do have a WAP, they must be too far away. I'm gonna go to a coffee shop later and try that out.