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02-15-2014, 11:48 AM | #1 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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| Totally Clueness & Need Help Changing From DSL to Wifi? Where Do I Start? Am desperate for somebody to help a non-geek and tell me how to set my laptop up for wifi and get a wifi service provider, if I need that. I have a wifi-ready laptop and AT&T DSL service but so want to to wifi but I haven't a clue where to start? I'd love to get rid totally of AT&T and even my landline if possible. What should I do first? Then second and so forth. Will I need a new Internet Service Provider other than this AT&T DSL service to send a wifi signal to my house other than what I've got now? Reading online on a forum I found it seems to say you don't need to change providers or services but the answers implied more than I know about it. Is that true I don't need to change plans? It seems odd that DSL would automatically change into wifi and no change of plan is needed? Is someone out there able to walk a clueless person through it all? I'd appreciate any help!
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02-15-2014, 12:21 PM | #2 |
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| You'll have to set up a wireless network connection, with info from At&T or whomever you want to go with. Can do over the phone or check your FAQ in your account online. Set up would be under Network in your control panel.
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02-15-2014, 12:35 PM | #3 |
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| Go to ATT online... search 'WiFi setup", in Support > setting up a home wireless connection... tells you where to find the info you need to set up the connection. At some point it will ask for your zipcode... to give you pertinent info for your area.
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02-15-2014, 12:52 PM | #4 |
♥ Maximo and Teddy Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Northern Virginia
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| https://www.wireless.att.com/busines...usb-modems.jsp It would probably be less expensive to have traditional internet service and to use a NAT router in your home for wireless capability. Let us know what you find out.
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02-15-2014, 01:45 PM | #5 | |
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02-15-2014, 02:36 PM | #6 | |
♥ Maximo and Teddy Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Northern Virginia
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You don't have to spend a fortune on the router. We bought the least expensive Netgear and run 3 computers on it. Works well. Extra layer of protection too. Just make sure to password protect it. Many people skip that part. I know you said you would like to get rid of your land line phone. We haven't had one for about 18 years. We first went mobile because our lives were very mobile at the time. Our Comcast internet service is about $55 a month. We have the "slowest" connection and yet we can't tell the difference between it and the "faster," more expensive plans.
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02-15-2014, 02:51 PM | #7 |
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| My att internet service (which is wi-fi) provided a wireless router. I didn't have to purchase a separate one. We have uverse. Same at my office. We have DSL with a wireless router. Wi-fi is not the same as DSL. DSL is how the internet gets to the house or office. Wifi or network is how the computer hooks to the DSL.
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02-15-2014, 05:12 PM | #8 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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| So if I buy a wireless router at the store and bring it home, I need to set up my computer to "talk" to it using the instructions on the AT&T website(which are now gobblydeegoop to me) and nothing more? Will my DSL broadband service, which is about $34/mo., automatically send wifi waves through the air to get me connected to the Internet? That's the part I'm not sure about is how my DSL service now will change to wifi waves or signals. Will the online set-up I do on the AT&T website automatically send me a wifi signal from the online set-up time onward? Sorry to be so dumb but I have never even looked into this before or talked to anyone about it so it's brand new stuff to me.
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02-15-2014, 05:15 PM | #9 | |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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I'm glad to know I don't have to have a landline to have wifi but I guess I'd better check with my ADT service which I think is currently set up through my phone line I think.
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02-15-2014, 05:19 PM | #10 | |
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02-15-2014, 05:21 PM | #11 | |
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02-15-2014, 05:25 PM | #12 | ||
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02-15-2014, 05:27 PM | #13 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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| BTW, thank you all so much for trying to help a complete novice at this! Sorry for all the maddening questions but before I call any internet service providers or go back to AT&T website, I was hoping I could understand more about what does what to get the wifi signal to my computer without a phone and things like that.
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02-15-2014, 06:27 PM | #14 |
♥ Maximo and Teddy Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Northern Virginia
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| I think you might need the land line for ADT. Definitely check with them. NAT router is not a brand. NAT = network address translation It enables multiple devices to access a single network without wires. The router requires DSL or cable delivered internet service. A router is necessary in your house if you want to use even 1 computer without being wired directly into your modem (does DSL use a modem?). The router also has its own firewall, which is an extra layer of protection. If you want to use wifi on the go, all you have to do is go to a "hotspot", like they have at libraries, coffee shops, and hotels. Or buy a "mobile hotspot": How to Choose the Fastest, Cheapest, and Most Reliable Mobile Hotspot to Stay Connected Everywhere You Go The article is a little dated, but I don't think a mobile hotspot is cost effective for routine internet use -- not mine anyway.
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02-15-2014, 08:06 PM | #15 |
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| We don't have a phone line at our house, and still have broadband internet (like DSL but off fios cable instead of phone lines). Your DSL box must be wireless to get wifi to your computer. If it's not, you'll need a wireless router, which will connect to the DSL box with a network (often blue, resembles a phone cord with a bigger clear clip) cable. I'm not trying to talk to you like you don't know anything about cable or DSL, so I hope it doesn't come across that way.
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