Laptop connection?

[Grandpappy]

How can the passenger in my car,during a trip, connect to the WWW on their laptop and would they be able to use the cars' cigarette lighter as a power supply?
Any advice please and many thanks.

[ChuckFickens]

Yes they can charge a laptop from the ciggie lighter

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The only way they would be able to connect to the internet would be by using a 3G mobile internet dingle, but as these use a mobile phone network the coverage can be very patchy in areas and reception won't be helped by the fact they will be sitting in a metal box.

[Grandpappy]

Thanks for that 'Chuck 'IT God & Lord of the Cyber Wave' Fickens'. I foolishly thought that if my TomTom can communicate with a satellite then a connection to a phoneline would be easy?
Sorry, I'm out of my depth.
BUT I'm learning!
Cheers

[rojash]

"a connection to a phoneline would be easy?". It is easy; it's stopping the wire breaking when you drive off that's the hard part :)