On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 8:19 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > On the back of your computer there is a place for a telephone line to be > connected. If you use the dialup method then you are not on wireless. > When > you go to sign on you would probably hear some noises call a handshake > which is the puter talking to the server and vice versa. I do have the > phone > cable connected but do not use it to connect to the web unless the > wireless > is not working for some reason- like power outage. > Fran, when we plugged in the wire to the regular outlet and then into the back of the computer as when we charge the battery, this time we heard quite a whooshing sound. We do use high speed internet. > > do you have a tv cable company who provides your television channels? If > so you would look to see if there is a wire connected to your computer that > has the same end on it that plugs into your TV. This would be direct > wiring to your computer. > Yes, we use comcast for our hight speed internet and TV. There is no wire > connected to, or from, our laptop, excepting when we charge the battery. > If you have a wire from the computer box outside or the back of your TV to > another black or white box with lights on it, then that is your wireless > connection. It takes 2 boxes for me. One is the modem that is first > connected to the cable line. Then a wire runs to another box with similar > lights. That is the router and the end of the cords. That would mean you > are > wireless- no wire connecting the internet directly to your computer. You > can > have a wireless mouse, a wireless printer, etc. Almost anything you have > connected to the back or even the front of your computer can have a > wireless item to do the same task, just without the need to have wires > running > between them, > As written above, there is no wire connected to the back of our computer except when we charge the battery; however, on that wire is a box-type device, say, six to seven inches in length and three or four inches wide. As soon as the wire/cord is plugged into the wall outlet, there is a tiny green light that shows from that bos. > > Hope this helps. Let me know if you need to know more. > I really do not know what to ask for. We can now access the internet, but > one page at a time; that is, if we wish to move to another page to continue > reading an article, for example, we are sent back to the main page google > and must re-type the entire address. Thank you so much for your help. I begin to think this "repair" is beyond the scope of our abilities. Rick Powell > > Fran > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >