Whewwwwwww. I'm tired just READING ALL THAT YOU WROTE.

I did learn some things though.

Her laptop will come with a built in modem. Her friends or her children are buying her this laptop. No one else across the street has a computer so she can't get anyone else's signal.

I'm not too sure if she brings in the lap top to my house how she can get a signal. I have Verizon DSL.

Fiber Optics is NOT available yet in our neck of the woods. People either have Cablevision or they have Verizon DSL.

I'm pretty sure she has Cablevision. So she will have to contact her cable company (Cablevision) and say "hi, I have a laptop, I want to go on the internet". Am I right?

And they will send her what??"

For some reason, (and don't bop me here). I just thought she would plug in the laptop into the local electical outlet, then she would turn it on, then she would bring up the AOL software, create an account (using the wi-fi modem that will probably already be built in), and then she would be good to go. Am I wrong about this?

People take their laptops in their cars and they go on the internet, so why can't she just take her laptop, put it on the kitchen table, plug it in the wall, go to AOL and creat her account? Makes it much less complicated than calling up cablevision, etc.

Am I right? Can she do this. She can always connect it to her cable. I'm talking about the first day she gets this laptop and she wants to learn how to use it and wants to go online.

Thanks sooooooo much.
You are invaluable.

Melody