First of all, what operating system do you run?
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do you know any college or university near by??? cuz maybe there they've got wifi and you could check there the basic settings
just windows seven on a toshiba satelite 350 something,i went to the library and they have a hotspot and the internet connection symbol looked weird and i double clicked it and "pop up"showed different connect points so i went to the on with the hotspot symbol,thx 4 the help guys