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   Shel to All   
   Re: Philly Considers Wireless Internet f   
   16 Sep 04 00:20:17   
   
   XPost: phl.internet   
   From: sisaac.control@netaccess.control.com   
      
   Apropos of this, I am a newcomer to laptops and to wireless networks.   
      
   I took my new (old) laptop with Win98 and wi-fi card to the   
   Reading Terminal Market.   
      
   Managed to tell the program that monitors the card that it should use SSID   
   (?) of "pcca". Then it showed a signal strength of about 34% and a signal   
   quality near 100%.   
      
   But when I asked an e-mail program to access  pop3.myrealbox.com, or a   
   telnet program to access unix5.netaxs.com , they protested they couldn't   
   find a DNS server.   
      
   What can be done?   
      
   Thanks a lot,   
      
      
   --   
   Sheldon Isaac   
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