Setting Up the Hardware
Before you get too comfortable in your chair, you must physically check some items. This may require you to do some low-level maneuvers (such as crawling under your desk):
✓ | Cable modem, DSL modem, or any other fancy contraption: If you have one of these babies, you need to make sure that:
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✓ | External modem: If you have an external modem (one that’s independent of your computer case), you need to verify that
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✓ | Internal modem: If you have an internal modem, you need to verify that:
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✓ | Wireless cards: If you have a wireless card, you also have to have a wireless router to collect and direct your wireless traffic between computers and/or ... |
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