The computer has a modem dial-up?

You can be an upset if you think you have the Internet for dial-up. Although dial-up modems have always been installed on the computers, the computers in the past, many are now sold without them. To avoid the problem as soon as you pay for Internet services, you should check if your computer is installed, a dial-up modem. There are two areas for a dial-up modem for your search.

First, look at the back of your system drive or a tower.There should be a door that looks just like the telephone socket on the back of a mobile phone and the wall. You can see a regular phone line, if the door is the correct size (if it is too large, it is not the right door). Here you will find one of the following three scenarios:

There is only one door, but is slightly larger than a normal phone connection. This is the Ethernet port for broadband connections, such as using cable and DSL. If this is the only port you have, you do not have a dial-upModem.
There is a phone connection (often on the bottom, but not always) and a phone cord fit enough. You have a modem dial-up! If you plan to use a mobile phone on your computer to use the same outlet, plug a splitter into the wall, then plug two phone cables in the splitter for each device.
There are two doors next to each other, the telephone line fits. Find your modem dial-up! The reason is that they have two doors, because a telephone cable connectorfrom the wall and the other is to use a telephone line, if you are not online connection. The "line" port or a picture of a phone jack for the cord from the wall. Reading Port "phone" or the image of a cell phone, in which a phone cord with plug, on the phone .* Note: You must use the port of "Telephone". Also keep in mind that if you accidentally put the wall for the connection line "phone", rather than having the "line" isbe able to connect!
If you do not have a modem, you need to buy one. If you do this, the following steps show you how to check if the modem software is installed correctly.

Open the Control Panel, then make sure that you are in Classic View, if you have XP or Vista.
Open modem options. On earlier versions of Windows, see "Modem", and 2000 or later, you will see "Phone and Modem Options.
Click the Modem tab (skip this step if you have an old computer).
Here is a Field List of the modem (s) installed on your computer.
In addition to the modem, which lists where it is connected. It may be "unavailable" or "COM" and a number. (On older machines, you click Properties for the modem in question and search for "door" must be quoted as a modem or COM port has been removed or damaged. Modem If this is the case, you must re-O install, repair or replace the modem.
If you have a modem is installed> Tower and listed as follows installed correctly, you are ready for dial-up. Other minor problems that might occur if you try to connect, but there will be more prepared and less likely to have connection problems when you start the new service.