If you buy a new laptop for Xmas....
and I have seen some as low as $350....
You will have wireless in it already.
We have a laptop with wireless, and it connects to this desktop which has
DSL (AT&T) thru a wireless router that sits on my desk here.
The router you can get for $40 or less thru Tiger Direct or any other discount
place online.
No you don't have to buy any service with a new laptop, but they will have software on it perhaps, like AOL or something else.
You connect your wireless router to your DSL box, and there you go. You have to load the DSL software onto your new laptop. But you can use it from anywhere in your apartment. I don't know about security where you are in NY, but here, the Microsoft is adequate. Other higher densities may require a separate firewall. The security is a bigger issue, IMO than the set up. It is necessary to think that out first.
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