Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Adolph & Sharon Weidanz <timetopaws@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Saturday 19 November 2005 12:42 pm, Adolph & Sharon Weidanz wrote:
>> Hey all...
>>
>
> 
> 1) I don't know where you are located nor all the options available to you.
> 
> 2) I don't think I would count on a wireless connection using a PCMCIA card.  
> You may know better particularly if you have talked to someone who uses such 
> a card on a regular basis.
> 
> 3) Assuming that (2) works, you can set up your laptop using Linux to provide 
> access to all of your other computers.   This is quite easy to do once you 
> put a firewall in place on the laptop.   However, the laptop would become a 
> permanent fixture in your network...   If the laptop isn't present, you 
> wouldn't have a network.
> 
> 4) What's wrong with the satellite deal?   Are you going to go over the limit 
> on a regular basis?
> 
> 
> 

Sorry about that.. I am now up in Connecticut.. The only options it
seems is either satellite or the wireless, as the marina is not wired
for cable or phone and I don't think they will spend the money to do so..
For #2 I was hopping someone here uses it. I don't know anyone here that
has it.. For #3 yep.. I know how to share the connection through the
laptop, however that would mean leaving the laptop on 24/7 and from past
experience (3 years old) I think that the laptop would die pretty soon..
That's why I was hoping to find a "dongle" that would allow the PCMCIA
card to plug directly to the router.
For #4.. That's a hard one to answer.. Part of the answer is I really
hate to pay that much (500 -600 for the equipment and 60 - 70 a month
for the service) just to be limited when I do want to DL a large chunk
(i.e. SUSE 10.0 would take like 4 or 5 days..). That's why I was looking
at the verizon deal as I don't believe that they cap the bandwidth.