On Saturday 19 November 2005 12:42 pm, Adolph & Sharon Weidanz wrote:
Hey all...
I apologize for this off topic question, and may have been sent (I didn't get it back) but I need help and advice and the only internet I have access to is to dl email 2-3 times a week and this is the only group I get...
Because of not having a landline or cable connection available, I need to find a way to connect to the internet. I have looked at 4 or 5 of the satellite providers, but they limit the amount that can be downloaded. For instance Direcway and earthlink reduces your bandwidth after you dl 169megs in 4 hours. Others are even more restrictive.
So my next idea is to use Verizon's braodband cell access. They say it will run 79.99 a month for 400 - 700K + service. The only drawback is that the antenna is a PCMCIA card. I would want to be able to hook it to my router with a ethernet/rj45 dongle so both the desktop and the laptop can access the internet. Does anyone have any success with this?
The router will give the connecting computers an IP but does the router get an IP through the PCMCIA card?
Any ideas or help would be appreciated, I am going through withdrawals not being able to hit the apt repositories or do a Yast update ;^)
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Just my opinions.... 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?