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Connecting laptop to internet by phone line...

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  • hjb123
    hjb123 Posts: 32,002 Forumite
    stevemcol wrote: »
    What laptop do you have? Modern recent laptops have built in modem. You just need a lead to plug into the phone point. Lots of cheap dial up numbers available.

    caveat...it's entirely possible they've stopped installing modems! A few years since I bought my laptop. I'll stand correcting if that's so.

    its an Acer 7520, I bought it from Tesco Direct just over a year since, have found it listed on Amazon with the specs HERE
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  • Idiophreak
    Idiophreak Posts: 12,024 Forumite
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    stevemcol wrote: »
    caveat...it's entirely possible they've stopped installing modems! A few years since I bought my laptop. I'll stand correcting if that's so.

    Yeah, they stopped bothering ages ago now...
  • weegie.geek
    weegie.geek Posts: 3,432 Forumite
    yeah, the standard models don't tend to have dialup modems installed.

    Or, more accurately, they don't tend to have the connector soldered on, and tend to have a jumper/solder joint on the motherboard to tell it to ignore the fact it has one, since it's generally standard boards and chipsets.

    And since a USB dialup modem costs the same or more or less as a usb ADSL modem... :)
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