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Posted by: joabarak@msn.com, June 28th, 2008, 2:59am
I am trying to hook up a new computer for my sister.  The computer is a HP Pavillion a6250z with a wirless 802.11b/g communication and Realteck RTL8201N 10/100 Mb/s.  She lives in the country and only has a regular telephone line (no DSL available) and has used dial up for her old computer.  This new computer does not have a plug on the back of computer for a telephone line.  It only has a ethernet plug.  How can this be hooked up.  The computer list these plugs on Back.  2PS/2 (keyboard & mouse), 1 VGA, 4 USB, 1 IEEE-1394, One LAN, One Modem, one SPDIF out (coaxial), Audio (speaker, line in, line out, microphone).  Please help in simple terms as I am not very cmputer smart and she is worse than I am.  Thanks very much
Posted by: Ray, June 28th, 2008, 11:28am; Reply: 1
   If the computer does not have a plug on the back for the phone line, it must not have a phone modem.  You need to buy a phone modem and install it on the computer.
   As far as I know, the phone modem cannot be hooked up directly to the wireless router.  It must be hooked up to the computer.
Posted by: Jogor, June 28th, 2008, 2:05pm; Reply: 2
You say it has one Modem listed, if that is installed the port must be there,

Check in Device Manager and look for Modem.

Joe
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