From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.100.22]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 2231979 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:40:20 -0500 Message-ID: <494FECF8.1080805@2rosenthals.com> Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:39:36 -0500 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.8.1.18) Gecko/20081113 MultiZilla/1.8.3.5g SeaMonkey/1.1.13 (PmW) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: OT: Broadband Connection (was: Re: [OS2Wireless] Broadband Connection) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Walter, and welcome to the discussion... On 12/22/08 07:00 am, W. J. Myles thus wrote : > Hi > > My wife has a new high speed internet connection for her Windows > Vista machine and I would like to take advantage of it for my eCS 1.1 > computer. I am presently on dial-up using Injoy. > > Where may I find a good source of information on the hardware and > software required to set up a connection. I expect that I will need > a router to take advantage of her broadband connection but I don't > need to connect and share files with her computer. I am, of course, > a complete networking novice. > > Okay, we'll need some more information in order to give you details: 1. What type of internet service does your wife have? 2. Who is the internet service provider? 3. Is your wife's computer connected directly to the box provided by the internet service provider (cable box, DSL, etc.)? 4. What is the make & model of the internet service provider's box? (Look for a label on the back or on the bottom.) 5. How do you want to connect to the service? Do you have wireless capabilities in your eCS machine, or will you be using a network cable? While this topic may fall slightly outside the realm of wireless networking with OS/2 and eCS, the list has been quiet, and we often delve into tangential matters, usually networking-related. If anyone on-list has an issue with this discussion going OT for a little bit (I've prepended the subject), please let me know, and I'll take this off-list. Cheers/2 PS - Happy Hanukkah to all who celebrate, and an upcoming Merry Christmas. :-) -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------- Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC www.2rosenthals.com Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com Treasurer, Warpstock Corporation www.warpstock.org -------------------------------------------------------------