The product description says it works with Win 98SE and includes the drivers. Do i need to use my existing online account or can i just use internet exployer if i'm at a place with shared wireless?
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-When you use public 802.11x wireless, you don't use "your" ISP, you use the wireless server's ISP (whatever ISP it's on). You can usually get email from your own ISP but not always newsgroups (some ISP's won't relay them).
And you should think twice about accessing private websites through public servers--things like bank accounts and so on. It's possible for others to eavesdrop on public wireless access points and capture the data going back and forth. It's
very rare, but it is
possible, with another laptop running the right program.
If you want to have a laptop hookup into your own ISP then you need to get the wireless through a cellphone company, like Verizon. It's DSL speeds and they give you a special card that works wherever you can get cellphone reception, but then there's cellphone-roaming charges involved.
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