Check your connection.
Check your connection.
Back then, my boss wasn’t particularly fond of giving away free services. However, pressure from his wife and some employees forced him to offer free Wi-Fi at the store. It was slow, using dial-up technology. Now that I’m older and more informed, I realize how challenging it must have been to make that work. It probably involved some kind of network bridging solution.
I've switched between dial-up and Wi-Fi before, but there are some issues. It still uses a modem, and then a router broadcasts the signal.
Are you certain it was dial-up rather than the initial DSL era? Both rely on phone lines. Roughly speaking, during dial-up the 56K modem was built into the PC as a PCI card—no separate external unit. To extend that link you’d have to route it through Windows with a wireless adapter, similar to how we’d turn a laptop/PC into a hotspot while still connected to the modem, router, or switch.