Allan
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Reged: 17/03/2004
Posts: 1258
Loc: Bristol
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These may seem like silly questions but I'm old and still trying to learn!
1. I am thinking of getting a Wifi system for my house, should I worry about nieghbours/passers by etc. using up my capacity and/or connection speed?
2. If I have a Wifi card in my laptop and find a free Wifi "hotspot" whilst travelling, do I need to have an ISP to connect?
3. Where do I buy a web address from? If I want to start a website about a product of mine where do I get the site name from? (It does not exsist at present).
Regards,
Allan
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Debutante21Sixpence
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Reged: 24/08/2005
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I may be wrong Alan , but the info you're after is often best found in the lounge , might be worth a post there instead
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BrendanS
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Reged: 11/06/2002
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Loc: Me: Wilts. Boat: Lymington
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1. If you set up a default wifi system, then yes, you are likely to be open to people piggybacking of your connection. It really depends where you live though. People in cities are more likely to experience this than rural dwellers with no neighbours. However, many wifi routers now come with security enabled, and it really isn't difficult to set up basic security which will prevent people using your connection unless they are really determined. It's not that much more difficult to make you wifi network almost impossible for anyone unauthorised to be unable to access it.
2. No, if you find a free wifi hotspot, you are using their ISP to connect. Be cautious however, not all free wifi hotspots really want you to be using their connection.
3. It depends what address you want. .co.uk, .com etc
If you want a .co.uk for instance you will register via nominet http://www.nic.uk/ but you have to purchase the domain via an agent. These usually provide hosting for your website, and you really need to know what you are after before you start searching as costs and services vary dramatically. Just do a google search on domain registration for a huge variety of options. Once you've got a feeling for what you are after just come back and ask more questions - better in the lounge or even better in website feedback forum where the techie stuff goes on tho.
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pragmatist
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Reged: 07/05/2003
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Loc: Exmoor but boat in Dartmouth
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Allan
A couple of points - is yours a modern house or an old one with thick walls ? If the former, then you should have no problems but if your house is like ours (walls made out of boulders!) you may not be able to communicate room to room via wireless. We have got round it in one place by hanging a booster in the window but even there we discovered our nice new double-glazed windows (K-glass) caused loss of signal whereas the older plain windows were fine !
If you want web hosting and cheap rental of a domain name you might like to look at 1&1 - we have used them for several years and although their customer support is not the fastest, they are very reasonably priced and have quite good software for setting up things like email, ftp (file transfer) etc.
Penny
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