Using a different WIFI Internet Connection from Home

I have an Apple Mac Pro at home with a WIFI connection, which works very well.
When I took the machine to my father in law who also has a WIFI connection (but from a different company), I tried to connect my lap top to his server box without success. I am being asked for the key code written on his WIFI box. When I type it, it does not let me in...
What should I do? Help please.

Generally speaking, your bookmarks are private to your computer, and if you set up multiple Firefox profiles on your computer, to the one profile.
Your bookmarks might be available to you at another location if you used the Sync service. In order to connect a new computer to the Sync service when you aren't near your old computer, you need a recovery key. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/share-bookmarks-tabs-and-more-your-other-computers#w_what-if-im-not-near-my-first-computer
If you didn't use Sync or can't access your account, someone with access to your old computer could email you your bookmarks. Since there is a range of different ways to do that and the best choice might depend on what you can expect the person you ask to be able to do... could they start up Firefox in your profile and follow menu steps to export a file? Could they drill down into a hidden folder on the system, zip a file, and mail that to you? Etc.

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