AboutBobert Expertise I have a vast knowledge of building desktop computers and am willing to share this knowledge with other users if they need help, or just have a few quick questions.
Expert: Bobert Date: 6/30/2008 Subject: Need to streamline :)
Question QUESTION: Hi, Bobert, thanks for offering to help me out.
Here's my scenario. We have wireless and high speed internet connected to a desk top that we don't use. We use the laptop. First question: can we leave the desktop off and it will still supply the laptop with wireless and high speed?
Next, we'd like to get rid of our phone land line because we never use it (we use Sprint cell phones). If we do that, can we still get high speed internet (it's thru bell south) and we also have Dish Network, if we get rid of the land line will we still be able to get pay per view on occasion? Now we have to hook the dish box to the phone in order to get it.
Thanks so much for all your help!
ANSWER: If you use DSL or other equipment that requires a data line over telephone lines, you'll need a telephone service in order to access these services. You may consider switching to something like cable internet and VoIP, if money savings is the goal (VoIP generally tends to be cheaper, and if all its being used for is connecting to the PPV equipment, its relability issues shouldn't be a problem).
As far as the internet situation, are you going through a router, or is the desktop acting as a residential gateway?
-bob
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QUESTION: Thanks for your help.
RE:internet, we are going thru a router.
W/Voip, do we also need to get cable ? And we pay less for the service, and still retain a phone line? We just don't need to use it for phone? Is that how it works?
Answer You'd need cable internet (or some other broadband connection) to use VoIP, Comcast will likely offer some bundle deal for VoIP and their highspeed internet, I know Verizon offers a similar package with FiOS (their highspeed internet). With that kind of solution, you might as well add television into the package, and have all of your services coming through one line (essentially). It will probably save money, but I'm not making any gurantees.
As far as having the router, the router handles the connections for each system individually, you can turn the desktop off and should have no problem, unless its acting as the wireless AP (however the router should be doing this (if it has an antenna, its the wireless AP, basically)).
