Nancy wrote --

anything internal is shut down, as is the monitor and the
printer and anything else external that might have been turned on...

The only time my printer is turned on are the few times I use it.

The wireless at our house comes through Richard's computer, so that gets
shut down when he turns off his computer... :)

I will pick up the same wireless signals at home all the time. There are three or four that no matter the time of time of day or night there's a
signal. (PW protected).
Comcast as two signals (other than from my router) I get all the time,
one is PW protected users can access when away from home and the other is a free city wifi signal.
In my travels in some larger cities I would get a "Cable WiFi" signal and scrolling through it would offer various cable companies, one being Comcast.
I could access that with my Xfinity account I have set up on the phone and
use here or all over the count
The only time I used the wifi on the phone would be if looking for directions or booking a room. Every motel I stayed at (no matter how small or remote) had PW protected wifi and given the PW at check in.
Some FF places have free customer wifi and most of those I could connect while in a parking lot, if close enough to the building. I used the clowns free wifi a lot for directions/reservations without going into the building
or buying anything. :)
Joe

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Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 08-30-19 07:20 <=-

anything internal is shut down, as is the monitor and the
printer and anything else external that might have been turned on...

The only time my printer is turned on are the few times I use it.

Likewise... :)

The wireless at our house comes through Richard's computer, so that gets shut down when he turns off his computer... :)

I will pick up the same wireless signals at home all the time.
There are three or four that no matter the time of time of day or night there's a signal. (PW protected).

We can likewise pick up wireless signals, not our own, and usually PW protected... I'm pretty sure Richard PW-protected our wireless so that
others can't access it when he does have his computer on...

Comcast has two signals (other than from my router) I get all the
time, one is PW protected users can access when away from home and the other is a free city wifi signal.

Those could be handy... :)

In my travels in some larger cities I would get a "Cable WiFi"
signal and scrolling through it would offer various cable companies,
one being Comcast. I could access that with my Xfinity account I have
set up on the phone and use here or all over the count

(cut off just a smitch there, but I'm guessing "country"?)

The only time I used the wifi on the phone would be if looking for directions or booking a room.

Those are useful things to be using it for... :)

Every motel I stayed at (no matter how
small or remote) had PW protected wifi and given the PW at check in.

It's become an amenity as standard as clean sheets... <G> Oh, or as
TV.... <G>

Some FF places have free customer wifi and most of those I could
connect while in a parking lot, if close enough to the building. I
used the clowns free wifi a lot for directions/reservations without
going into the building or buying anything. :)

That works fine... ;)

ttyl neb

... Everybody wants something that somebody else has.

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