Your Zyxel modem is to connect the computer to a DSL line, a special 
variety of telephone company line.
  Your D-Link adapter is to connect the computer to a "WiFi" radio network 
using the 802.11b standard.  (It appears to offer at least two non-standard 
features which are unlikely to work with any radio networks you 
encounter...)  It effectively *IS* the "card" to which Philip was referring.

  Either sort of connection can, potentially, be a gatewya to the Internet.  
802.11b wifi will work with most hotel/motel/cafe wireless Internet systems. 
 If you want access while actually moving down the highway, you more likely 
need a connector to the cell phone (radio) network instead.  (Philip tried 
to address this possiblity as well, which may have confused you.)

David Gillett


On 2 Jul 2007 at 17:09, [log in to unmask] wrote:

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Subject:        	Re: [PCBUILD] lap top connection 's  for travel?
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> where can i get software for instructions? possibly    online for the  
> d-link co?
> 
> wow! you are very knowledgable; Thak you soo much for the quick response 
> I HAVE A
> D-LINK DWL 120+ W/USB CONNECTION
> WIRELESS 802 11B NETWORK ADAPTER\THAT DID NOT COME FROM EBAY WITH
> INSTRUCTIONS BUT I WAS TOLD THIS IS WHAT I NEED TO CONNECT MY LAP TOP TO
> DSL?
> I HAVE NO PLACE IN MY ZYXEL modem for a card nor do I have a card;
> what will i need to do the hook up? or can I?
>  
>  
> 
> 
> > [Original Message]
> > From: <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Date: 7/1/2007 8:56:07 PM
> > Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] lap top connection 's  for travel?
> >
> >  
> > In a message dated 7/1/2007 2:34:15 PM Atlantic Standard Time,  
> > [log in to unmask] writes:
> >
> > How  would I set up a laptop  internet connection;  where i can take my  
> > laptop anywhere and use it online?
> > I have a gateway laptop;
> > I also have  xyxel  dsl with earthlink.net;
> > I have seen people p;aying poker online  even in a car;  and take laptop 
> > wherever they go;  pick up  surrounding signals?  
> > doesn't it have to be connected through a phone  someway?
> >
> >
> > [log in to unmask]
> >
> >
> >
> > You can get a wireless reciever for a laptop or desktop that can, as you  
> > say, pick up a surrounding signal but signals can be hard to find
> especially in  
> > remote areas since there must be a wireless router in the area to
> broadcast 
> > the  signal. Also many routers are set to require a password to
> connect.while 
> > some  are "free" to use. The laptop wireless software will tell you if
> there is 
> > a  signal present and there are devices as small as a keychain which have
> a 
> > light  that flashes if a signal is present.
> >  The hotel where I work has an "open" signal because our routers are  
> > connected directly to the cable which supplies our internet connection 
> instead of 
> > running through a dedicated computer. Apparently this has caused 
> difficulties 
> > in setting up a working password. The owner asks lurkers in the  parking
> lot to 
> > leave quite often! Other buisnesses offer their connection freely  on
> purpose 
> > (although it is usually intended for their customers).
> >  
> >  -Phillip Williams-
> >
> >
> >
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