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    phone line/dial up?

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by fishcube, Aug 24, 2004.

  1. fishcube

    fishcube Notebook Evangelist

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    We plan on hooking our laptop up to a dial up service (phone line). We bought a nice surge protector with phone cord input/output. Have all of it hooked up etc. But, just thought, can I even use the regular phone cord with the laptop?

    Do I need a special cord? that goes from phone line to laptop?

    sorry if this a stupid question, but this will be our first laptop.



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    No, a regular cord is fine. If you need cheap access with a ton of numbers, we use www.hawkcommunications.com for our backup when high speed is not available.

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    fishcube Notebook Evangelist

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    Thanks...glad to know we have the necessary items. My parents found out the hard way, when they had a storm and lighting hit their laptop...they were not using a surge protector! Thankfully they had extra warranty and had it fixed right away.

    Do the phone line through surge protector really work?



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  4. Brian

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    I'm sure it does, though I've never bothered to try.

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