wireless?

[loukr]

Hi, this is probably going to be one of the stupidest questions about this subject.. but basically, my impatient sister set wireless up herself last night (she's clueless), and now we're not sure whether our internet is connecting through broadband or our old dial up... can anyone help me find out? thanks

[Whickerman]

a quick answer is this - if you can't tell the difference in download speed between the two just by opening a website, you're paying too much for your broadband!

[verycurious]

Its a long time since I used dial up, but may be if you pick up the receiver on your phone whilst connected to the internet through your wireless set up you should hear the noise that dial up makes on the phone line.

Or on the computer you're using with the wireless receiver, if you look down in the right hand corner of the task bar at the bottom of your screen you should see an icon for a radio receiver with a coloured light flashing on it. Right click on this and it should take you to the set up for your wireless connection. It should tell you somewhere in here which connection you are using.

[bednobs]

simply try to phone your home phone while connected to the internet .. if you get the engaged signal you are on dial up

[loukr]

sorry.. being really stupid! lol the speed is the same, but I haven't used dial-up for so long I forgot how slow it was... phone's working.. yey! lol

also, now I have wireless.. nothing shows in the taskbar.. not even a connection?