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Connect to the Internet

How do you connect to the internet?

You’ve been introduced to internet basics; now, how do you connect to the internet and an internet service provider or ISP?

  • Wireline internet network
    • Dial-up – through your home’s telephone network
    • DSL – also through your home telephone network
    • Cable – through cable television
    • Fiber optic – cables
  • Wireless internet network
    • Cellular – smartphone or hotspot
    • Wireless ISP
  • Satellite
    • Hughesnet and others
    • Starlink – SpaceX

Wireless Home Network

Setting-up an internet network in your home to an internet service provider requires a modem and a wireless router to make a WiFi network to connect devices:

  • Smartphone
  • Tablet
  • Laptop
  • Printer

WNC Broadband Project

The Western North Carolina broadband leadership team constantly provides advocacy for improving broadband in our beautiful part of the state of North Carolina.

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More

Internet Basics: Connecting to the Internet. (2019). GCFGlobal.org. https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/internetbasics/connecting-to-the-internet/1/

Internet Basics: How to Set Up a Wi-Fi Network. (2019). GCFGlobal.org. https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/internetbasics/how-to-set-up-a-wifi-network/1/