On 11/19/05 2:37 PM, "Adolph & Sharon Weidanz"
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.
T1's have come down in price a lot. If you wanted, as this is a business connection, you can share the expense with some of your neighbors...wireless. You can host your own servers...they have a guarantee of no more than 4 hour downtime. Try to get that with DSL or cable. We did that when we couldn't get DSL @ the shop... Came with something like 8 or 12 static IP's, all the bandwidth I wanted...it's just the speed was maxed @ something like 1M. (we also had some voice lines in there...otherwise it's something like 1.55M) (T1 has 24 channels...you can use them for voice or data...) http://www.t1-t3-dsl-line.com/solutions.php Google is your friend. -- Thanks, George How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin. Ronald Reagan