How can I get wifi without a landline?

[Abigail Nunez]

So recently my mom cut our landline phone and replaced it with a cellphone. Our wifi then got disconnected and I'm guessing I have to get wireless. How do I do that?

(our wifi plan was with at&t)

[Bruce]

If you have cable TV she can ask how much more a month to add internet and wireless router.
Explain to her that without a home Wi-Fi the data charges on the phones can go way up.
Be careful about your data usage on a cell phone it's expensive to use Gigs and Gigs.
Movies and games can eat up Gigs fast.
Learn how to check data usage on the cell phone plan frequently.

[Learner]

If you are in a Wi-Fi zone then you can use.

[edison]

You can get wifi connection thorugh wireless internet connection.

[tumbleweed_biff]

A little education is required:

WiFi is wireless TCP/IP networking not an internet service or internet access.

Think of networking the a phone system at an office. You have one phone number for the business and then a bunch of extensions. Each extension has its own sub-number which you can use to call other extensions at the business, but anyone coming in from the outside has to get transferred by the operator.

This is the same way a computer network works. The computer network is the equivalent of the telephone extensions. The company then has an Internet connection through which all the people connect in and out.

WiFi is simply a wireless version of the local network, just like a cordless phone in your house connects to your internal phone lines but still connects to the same telephone line leaving your house. You can have WiFi in your home without having any sort of internet service.

What you are looking for is a way to get access to the Internet without using the telephone line which you don't have anymore. Whatever service you connect to outside of your home, regardless of the type of Internet connection can have wired or wireless access to devices in your home.

Not having a phone line to use, your primary options for connecting to the Internet are cable modem, cellular service, and two-way satellite. Two way satellite is slow and expensive, typically having relatively small bandwidth quotas each month. Going over those quotas gets very expensive and they usually slow you way down if you use "too" much bandwidth.

Cellular service - the same thing which cell phones use for their data service, also known as 2G, 3G and 4G service. This can be provided via a dedicated cellular modem for a single device like a laptop or you can get a Hotspot which allows multiple devices to connect through it just like a WiFi router except much slower. Cellular can often have bandwidth limits and costs although most Hotspot devices offer "unlimited" data from what I have experienced. This tends to be not as expensive as two-way satellite but more than cable while dramatically slower than cable but usually quite a bit faster than satellite.

Cable modem service:
There is a good chance that your local cable provider offers an unadvertised "basic" connection for $15 or $20. Time Warner does this in the form of a 2mbit download for $15/month They do the same thing for their cableTV service as well, while their regular service is something like $45/mo for 10 or 15 mbit (I don't recall the exact numbers from the current marketing). If you are in an area serviced by Earthlink I saw they were offering a 1 year promo for $30/month recently.