I have high speed internet with a LAN. I cannot afford it right now so I was going to go back to dial up with AOL. Do I have to remove my ethernet hardware in order to do this?
2007-04-14 22:03:47 · 3 answers · asked by dlynch726 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
You do NOT have to do anything other than configure you AOL dial-up account.
The LAN and Dial-up are two seperate operations within Windows and can be on the computer at the same time.
2007-04-14 22:14:11 · answer #1 · answered by Jerry 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, you shouldn't have to as long as your computer has room to keep both the NIC (Network Interface Card, ethernet adapter, highspeeds interwebs) and your old Dial Up modem (56k, super slow card, whatevers). Having one in with the other shouldn't cause any problems, except for the possibly of a nagging little bubble in the bottom right telling you a network cable is unplugged.
Hmmm, I see you mentioned a LAN too. You're not going to be able to share the connection over the LAN if that's what you were doing before (well, I bet you COULD, but it's not worth it). When you switch back to dialup you can keep the LAN just to have multiple computers connected for file transfers and that sort of stuff (assuming you had multiple computers connected through a router).
2007-04-14 22:21:30 · answer #2 · answered by eviljebus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no you dont have to rmove your network card
you just have to set up your network connection to utilize the dial up modem
2007-04-14 22:07:27 · answer #3 · answered by beni_gabor 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋