Your Network card, or "Network Interface Device" is used to connect to the Internet. This will generally be either integrated in the Motherboard, or inserted as a PCI card (or PCMCI for a laptop).
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When you connect to the network is normally the time that an Internet Protocol address is created or assigned to your computer
If the instructions say that if you are using a modem you may need to manually connect to the Internet. What this means is that you might have to connect one end of an Ethernet cable into the modem and the other end into the back of your device.
A wireless USB adapter allows a computer or wireless device to connect to a wireless router. It is needed for any device which is not wired to an internet connection, to connect.
To connect to the internet you have to have 3 things. Internet account A connection to the internet (phoneline, cable modem, dsl, wireless) a program that will activate the port that is connected to the internet. If there is no physical connection to the internet (phone line, network cable, wireless card) then the 'seemingly unintelligent device) can not connect. What type of device is this? Is there a phoneline/network cable plugged into it? Is there wireless access capability on this device? Do you have Wireless internet at the site this device is at? Let me know, and I may be able to answer the question.
You can connect your device to internet network wirelessly.
A device used to connect a computer to the internet is a modem.
That happens when you aren't connected to the internet.
I need to find my password to connect my router to the internet? Where can I get it?
modem is device which is used to connect the Internet to computer
If you are referring to a modem, the it is a device that allows your computer to connect to the internet.