Lights & TV etc

[Noble]

I was also sent a PM asking if an internet radio could be used by someone without broadband.
I copy here the reply for anyone that's interested...
Most broadcasters have an option for reduced quality audio which makes it possible to listen to streamed radio over a dial-up internet connection. It's not perfect but it's probably better than nothing. You can then listen via the computers loudspeakers.

To distribute the signal to other parts of the house you'll need some kind of network. For most people this means connecting an Internet Radio to their broadband router, by cable, by wireless (which isn't suitable for old stone houses), or using the domestic wiring circuits to carry the signal.

If your computer is reasonably modern, and it has a network card, you could probably connect an Internet Radio (with the same connection options as above) directly to the network port, without using a router, but I've never done it. I think that you would need to be reasonably computer savvy to set up Windows to share the internet connection in this way.