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MissK
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yes, you must have some presence in your house. You were using ClearWire, whose presence was in the form of radio waves passing through your walls. To use anything else you will need an actual wire coming in from the street. Your choices for wire are Qwest (digital subscriber line – DSL) or Comcast (digital cable with internet riding free on what is basically a cable TV wire).
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Without the wire, your choices are limited to what can enter through the walls of your house and right now that’s only ClearWire.
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Technically, you could use a cell-phone patch cord to your computer but the service would be slow and you couldn’t use your phone at the same time. If this is of interest, there are plenty of road-warriors who can help you (I’m assuming some of them even read WSB). I’m not one of those road-warriors, though.
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Or, if you’re close enough to someone else who’s running an open WiFi system, you could use that but most such personal systems are locked with a code.
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Alas, no super wide WiFi yet.