From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.100.26]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTPA id 339380 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 07 Sep 2006 12:35:10 -0400 Message-ID: <45004A3E.2050807@2rosenthals.com> Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 12:35:10 -0400 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060904 MultiZilla/1.8.3.0a SeaMonkey/1.5a MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Satellite providers (Was Hotspots: Play-for-Fee vs Play-for-Free) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We're talking about commercial grade systems, Sam. The newer residential systems from DirecPC (7000-series hardware and above) are completely self-contained, and do not use any Windows software to re-wrap packets in BST (which is what the proxy service does for Starband and the older DirecPC setups). All of the commercial grade systems are self-contained, as well. Anyway, if you're stuck with Starband, then you might just want to set up a dedicated Windows proxy server on the edge (with nothing of any value on it, and something easily recreated in case it blows up). On 09/07/06 12:16 pm, Sam Lewis thus wrote : > I hadn't been reading this thread til now. Are these satellite > services, your talking about, commercial or residential? > > I am currently using Starband and have been fairly happy with them but > they require the modem to be connected to a Windoze box so I need to > have a standalone Win2K box, Windoze Firewall and antivirus and so on > and so forth. I would like to go back to my OS/2 Server and Injoy > firewall. Any suggestions? > Thanks, > Sam > > Dunhill Satellite Systems wrote: > >> Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: >> >> >>> [snip] [snip] >>> >>>> >>>> >>> Julian, we started a discussion some time ago about broadband options >>> up there. I don't recall where we left off, but I would recommend >>> looking into a good commercial-grade satellite service, such as >>> http://www.skycasters.com. >> Look than also at UnaSat, better priced, and great quality >> We use this to feed our hotspot system in the Dominican Republic (26 >> spots in the south) >> and is much cheaper than iDirect, while the quality is not noticeable >> less. >> Surfbeam modems with DOCSIS 1.01 >> >> main supplier for the USA is www.motosat.com , for information you can >> look at our website as well >> >> Arjan >> >> -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------ Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC Accountants / Network Consultants New York / Northern Virginia www.2rosenthals.com eComStation Consultants www.ecomstation.com Novell Users Int'l www.novell.com/openenterpriseserver Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------