Others have given good information regarding wireless access points and
needing some sort of "broadcast" for the wireless card in your laptop to
communicate with.  

Others have also said that you must have a broadband connection.  This is
true if you don't have another PC which is connected to the phone line.
Yes, dialup is painfully slow.  But it isn't much slower over your wireless
connection using Internet Connection Sharing or some sort of proxy server
on the PC connected to the phone line.

Paul Jones
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At 07:09 PM 7/17/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi I am new to wireless, just got the card software drivers  for my
laptop-what else do I need to have?  When I try to connect there is never a
connection available.  I don't subscribe to any wireless thing-just a
dialup account with Earthlink.  Do I need some other piece of hardware or
is it an account I need with someone? thanks in advance
>kathy
>

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