It depends what you are using it for. Email is nearly always provided as a free addition to an Internet connection. As it is not 'core business', some providers do not take adequate care over email performance and fail to provide adequate protection from spam and viruses. Also, you're often stuck with a weird address such as 'xhgybf236@myprovider.com' rather than your own choice. If you're in business, email is a core lifeline, like phones, fax and post.

The following information is provided specifically for SDSU mailing lists hosted on lists.sdsu.edu. If you are looking for general information about Majordomo, please check with the official site.

Yes. You should turn on the Windows XP Internet Connection Firewall for all computers in your home network. This helps prevent the spread of viruses or worms across your network if a computer is infected. A computer on the network could become infected through a separate Internet connection, such as one on a laptop that is used on your home network and on public networks. Or a virus could be introduced to a computer on your network by way of e-mail or software installed from a CD or floppy disk.

When using your own computer, you are free to choose whichever Internet Service Provider you wish. Free Internet Service Providers are available. The website http://www.ispnut.com/ provides a list of such services.

If you are reading this sentence, consider yourself special. While this FAQ was written and updated over many years in an attempt to distill the best bits of wisdom for easy digestion, almost no one ever reads it. It might as well contain the word "dog" written thousands of times from top to bottom for all the good it does.

If you have MSN dial-up Internet service, you should upgrade to the most recent version of the dial-up connection software. This version fully supports Windows Firewall in Windows XP for MSN dial-up Internet service users. For more information about upgrading your MSN software or securing your MSN Internet connection, contact MSN support.

For best results, iMAP requires a fast Internet connection (DSL or better). It will work over a dial-up connection, but the initial loading of the site will be very slow. If you are interested only in property searches, try our faster-loading Parcel Viewer application.

All computers in your home network should be protected by a firewall. A firewall helps to prevent the spread of viruses or worms across your network if they infect one computer. A computer on the network could also become infected through a separate Internet connection, such as a laptop that is used on your home network and on public networks. Or, a virus could be introduced to a computer on your network through software installed from a CD or floppy disk.

Just like with telephone or electricity, broadband internet can be accessed almost anywhere in the home. Most people who have a broadband internet connection ultimately share it by installing a home network, which uses a router to direct internet traffic to and from multiple computers. In most situations you won't notice any slowdown in your broadband performance when two or more people are online over your home network.

We have multiple, redundant T3 connections to the North American backbone through Sprint, Earthlink, UUNET, Genuity, Level3, PSI, Digex and AOL.

You can use your current Internet connection. A high-speed connection is preferred for better response, but a dial-up connection will work.

ProjectShare.com is a site on the World Wide Web. You must have Internet access to use ProjectShare.com. You cannot dial into ProjectShare.com.

Initially you may need a temporary internet connection to authenticate with our system to play your files, however the details of the authentication are up to the Content Owner. Be sure to check the details before you make your purchase.

Yes. But Pagico requires to be activated(online) upon installation. After the activation, you can use Pagico whenever you want, without a network connection.

Yes. EasySiteEdit is a web server based system and it does not from your local desktop. Hence, you will require an internet connection in order to use it.

We transport the voice packets over a broadband connection into our switch. This then routes the calls onto the Public Telephone Network.

Yes, depending on the PDA model. Your choices are a built-in wireless connectivity, or an attached wireless modem. If your PDA doesn't have the ability to connect directly with the Internet, you can still view select Web Pages by downloading them into your PDA when you do a HotSync. AvantGo allows you to do this.

Answer: If you are away from your computer, just visit http://mail.infochan.com from any computer hooked up to the Internet! You will be prompted to enter the first part of your e-mail address (for username@mail.infochan.com enter “username”), your e-mail password, and then click Login. Please remember, if your e-mail address is username@infochan.com, you will need to change the E-mail Server to “infochan.com”.

Internet connections may sometimes be interrupted or disconnected. We are aware of this problem at RummyRoyal and have implemented a special feature in our software to help maintain the game's continues play, and allow disconnected players to return and continue playing. In case a player's connection is terminated, and the communication between his client and server has been interrupted, the server will continue in an "Auto-Play" mode, until the player returns or the round is over.

The XBox has no modem, only an Ethernet jack, so your connectivity options begin there. You'll need to be able to connect to the Internet over Ethernet somehow - either by accessing another PC that shares its Internet connection, or by accessing some kind of router (cable, DSL, dial-up, whatever). i stupidly used an xbox live 2 month trial and it updated my xbox os. is there any way i can downgrade it so i can install linux? i am no longer interested in xbox live.

Yes, some of the computers in the Independent Learning Centre are connected to email and the Internet (there is a sign above each computer indicating whether or not it allows access to email and the Internet). To use email and/or the Internet at AIS you need to set up an Internet or email account. An Internet account will give you access to the Internet and to web-based email services such as Hotmail. An AIS email account will only allow you access to an AIS email address (eg. Xxx@ais.ac.

How do I get the "Flexible Content Aggregation" sample to work? I get an "Connection timed out" exception.

Given that your employer doesn't mind, yes. Some employers use have their Internet connection protected by software and hardware (aka "a firewall") with the intention of limiting use from within or without their private network.

Most small consumer electronic products (including all of our wireless CPE products or "radios"), operate from unregulated power supplies or "power bricks." These power supplies only use small amounts of power between 9 and 24 volts (some up to 48 volts) and have a very low tolerance for anything less than what they are rated for.

A broadband connection, cable or DSL, is required. Also, should you wish to control the system using the mobile touch screen then wireless Internet will also be required. This is easily and inexpensively achieved through the use of a Wireless Access Point.

No, TalkBroadband™ is build specifically for always-on High Speed Internet connection and cannot be used with any type of dial-up Internet service.

For software I use webcam32, it handles all the live streaming video but can also send static images to an FTP site at regular intervals. For hardware I am running a pentium with Windows 98 and use an ATI All-in-Wonder Pro AGP video capture card with an 8mm video camera as input. My internet connection is Sympatico.

Yes! You can continue to surf the web, read email and use intant messager services while using your VoIP.co.uk service. The service does use a portion of your internet bandwidth to make the call, however it should not interfere with your normal internet use.