[Web4lib] SLIGHTLY OFF TOPIC - HOW TO CONNECT AN OLD PC TO OUR INTERNET CONNECTION?

[Andrew Hankinson]

Hi Melodie,

Ethernet and a Modem are two completely different types of  
connections, so it's impossible to hook one up to the other and get  
them to work.

If you have a spare ethernet card around you could put that in the  
computer and then hook it up to your network.  Barring that, the only  
other way is to get access to a dial-up account and then e-mail the  
files or upload them to a server somewhere.

-Andrew

On 8-Oct-07, at 1:13 PM, Frances, Melodie wrote:

>
> All,
>
> Apologies for being off topic with this question, but you all are so
> very tech savy.
>
> I have an old (windows 98) pc that only has a phone connection on it -
> Is there any kind of adaptor that I can use to connect a phone plug in
> to an Ethernet connection? Something like a jack that would have the
> phone connection on one end (small) and the Ethernet connection on the
> other?
>
> I have tried just transferring the files via a floppy or a flash drive
> but the pc is so old this isn't working either!!!!
>
> Thanks!!
>
> Melodie Frances
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Andrew Hankinson
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