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Originally Posted by Sweet Tigger
If you have a wireless connection, and a labtop is fully charged.....
It will work inside a car.
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No. A laptop has wireless capabilities and the battery life will allow it to connect wirelessly for a certain period of time; however, your laptop's ability to wirelessly connect and your battery being fully charged does not = laptop connecting inside of a car.
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My service provider is one of the largest ones in the province.
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Just because the ISP has a large area, doesn't mean that you wireless network is large. The service provider and your area network are different things. The network you connect to in your home only has a certain range, which does not extend very far from your house.
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My mom uses her's in her car, and my brother's labtop works up
thousands and thousands of feet up in the air.
So there is no reason why it wouldn't work inside a car.
My mom always uses her internet in the car, because of the kind
of work she does.
Theres no reason why it won't work inside a car, and my friend was
even using her's as well.
As well, I wasn't that far from home, maybe five minutes away.
And yes Jul, I don't have a clue how to do alot of things, but thats why
I always ask for help.
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If the laptops are working in those areas ALL THAT MEANS is that they are finding a wireless network IN THE AREA to connect to. It's entirely possible that your laptop is just set up to connect to certain networks and was done so by other people and you have no clue how it works or why it works you just know it does. But laptops need a network to connect to and networks vary in size... for example, the network at a university is very large in comparison to your home network. You can connect to ANY network if you are close enough and you have access to that network (like Wildangel said, most networks involve a password to access and you need to adjust a few settings on your laptop).
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Originally Posted by Wildangel
yeah. it's scary. that's why I watch my wireless settings on my phone and have it closed to outside links. or something to that sort. not sure what it's called. but on vacation 2 years ago, i connected to my aunts and someone elses phone by accident. i used it long enough to shoot off an e-mail to my x father in law to let him know we were in town. This year, i'll surf off of my own phone. since I have it set up to unlimited minutes/kb's.
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That is SO creepy. I don't know if my phone can even connect to the internet... I can't imagine how long it'd take if it did, or how you'd be able to see anything on that little screen. I know no one's ever done that to me, because I've never had any crazy charges, but that's scary knowing someone COULD.