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.