Loy;
take a look at www.wildblue.com for high speed satellite internet service
I have been on www.starband.com for 5 years plus and have been through ups
and downs
and a company, that is completely uncaring and tech support that is poor at
best.
Wildblue uses a new KA band satellite as opposed to KU band for Starband.
I am an installer for wildblue here in central Idaho and have
really been impressed with wildblue performance.
It rivals DSL, other than webpages loading slightly slower
due to the distance to and from the satellite (latency)
But still pretty snappy.
For unbiased, real life info on wildblue visit
http://www.wildblue.cc/wbforums/index.php
and see what users are saying. Mostly positive, many starband users
are going over to wildblue.
Gaming and Voip are not really compatible with Sat. internet , because of
the latency,
But for large downloads Sat. excels.
I recently downloaded a beta release /(escape) of windows vista that was
over 4 gigs.
The company (wildblue) is on the ball and seems to care.
Installers are required to carry spare modems and trias (lnbs) and are
using 3ghz coax and fittings.
So you don't get as much line loss from the dish to the modem.
Their tech support seems really good so far.
Wildblue hasn't overloaded their spotbeams, like starband
has with their clusters.
The nrtc coop I install for here is offering free install
until may 15 and the equipment is $299.
plans start at $49 for 512k
uploads are slow, but better than dialup.
wildblue uses a hardware modem that is super easy to network.
DSL or cable is better, but where I live that isn't an option.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Loy Pressley" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 12:02 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Wireless Network Help
> I've recently acquired an IBM Thinkpad notebook with a Cisco wireless
> card and I would like to set up a wireless network here at my house. I
> know absolutely nothing about how to go about doing this. I would be very
> grateful for any guidance that could be offered. I need to know what kind
> of hardware I need to make it happen and how to go about hooking it up to
> get it to work.
>
> The IBM ThinkPad notebook has Windows 2000 as the operating system, runs
> at 1.3 GHz and has 512 Megs of RAM, and a 40 gig HD with 37 gig empty. It
> has the Cisco wireless card and also has two RJ-45 network connections and
> an internal modem.
>
> My desktop computer is a Dell L800r with WinXP which runs at 800 MHz, 512
> Megs of ram, and a bunch of empty hard disk space. It also has an
> internal modem and an empty RJ-45 lan connection.
>
> Having the capability for the laptop to access my internet connection over
> the wireless netowork is not a high priority. I live in a rural area and
> am restricted to a dial-up connection that runs, most of the time at
> 26,400; occasionally at 28,800 baud. I'm not sure that DSL or anything
> like it will ever be available here within my remaining lifetime.
> Verizon, our "local" phone company, doesn't seem very motivated to provide
> anything other than the world's worst phone lines.
>
> I would be very grateful for any guidance that could be offered. I need
> to know what kind of hardware I need to make this happen and how to go
> about hooking it up to get it to work.
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