broadband access with starband, usb, and linux

[Raul A. Gallegos]

This does not seem like a all together good solution.  On top of the difficulties mentioned below the only thing they guarantee as far as access goes is latency.

On Mon, 20 Nov 2000 15:13:42 -0600, Brent Harding wrote:

>			I've heard of this satellite net access thing that's supposed to be
>2-way on the Kim Komando show called starband. It's from dish network, and
>they include the dish, antenna, modem, and the software used.
>Unfortunately, it hooks to the usb port, the modem. Another option is to
>get the package from radio shack that has a tranceiver card instead of the
>usb modem, with msn service, but you have to buy the PC. Which would be
>usable in linux? They don't seem to offer a modem connecting to an ethernet
>card to my knowledge.



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