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[Lord Lanair]

Meh, when my brother first decided he wanted internet access (a few years ago), they drilled a telephone wire through MY room to service him.  That's the reason I first started using the internet.. it was just... there!

When we got cable, though, only my mom's room needed ripping up (since hers holds the wireless station).    

[underruler]

Sharky I thought you had dial up. :/

[matt_the_shark]

my grandmother has dial-up, that's where i am now, i was just explaining the set-up at my mom's house before we moved out

[underruler]

psst...when are you going back to the good stuff?

[Guest:SS]

For my cable, there wasn't a thing like that. If you already have cable tv

That's the problem - I don't have any connections at all.
Except electicity. And water. Maybe if I mix them together I can get an Internet line?

you could take wireless internet

That's one of the options I'm looking at.

The cards designed for laptops are stupidly expensive though (and that assumes I could get an adapter for my main PC)

Been looking at various handheld Internet devices, but they're never clear on if they have proper HTTP/HTML internet, or some inferior crap.
The T-Mobile Sidekick looks promising though... if that's available in the UK. :/ (could only find it on US site)

I really need to go into the store and ask the people and hope they're a bit smarter than the regular trained monkeys...