[iBook] really (dumb?) question about Airport

[Ondra Soukup]

Get the Airport base station with modem and and plug your phone-line  
into it. Then your wireless life can begin :)
"Networking for the rest of us"

On 29.6.2005, at 6:28, Michelle wrote:

> Hi again everyone,
>
> Please know that I am not a *total* idiot... it's just that all  
> this wireless stuff is totally new and foreign to me. My current  
> online configuration is that my iBook G4 has the lovely phone-line  
> cord stuck in its port, then said cord snakes across the floor to  
> my kitchen where the main home phone line is (we have a VERY old  
> farmhouse with limited phone jacks) and it plugs into the wall there.
>
> This is of course inconvenient and probably by all current  
> technology, archaic!
>
> So I need this help. I understand that my iBook came "with" some  
> "Airport" stuff loaded on it. I think that means it just needs the  
> "Airport" "station" to plug into the wall, then my iBook can talk  
> to that, which will then connect me to the internet? Is this even  
> close to being right?
>
> I should mention that we have dial-up internet service (again,  
> because we live in the boonies on a farm) - with VERY slow dial up  
> service. Can I even use "Airport?"
>
> I am just wanting to be able to actually USE my laptop as a  
> portable computer - and yet still be online. To be able to sit on  
> the couch (in another room, imagine that!) and still be online...  
> without dragging this hideous phone cord along with me.
>
> Please advise - I see ads and articles all the time now for  
> "Airport base station" and " Airport Express" - but to be honest, I  
> don't really know what the heck those things are, what the  
> differences are ... and which, if either, will work for me.
>
> Thanks so much - please be easy on me!
> Michelle & Herd
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