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 339451 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 07 Sep 2006 12:48:00 -0400 Message-ID: <45004D45.2080703@2rosenthals.com> Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 12:48:05 -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]Re: 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 On 09/07/06 12:37 pm, Dunhill Satellite Systems thus wrote : > Sam Lewis 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? >> > For me no *doze in my network ! (or it must be a paying client) > > UsaSat/Surfbeam is a straight tcpip connection (also with static IP) and > runs on VxWorks. > (Which is Windows, after all...) ;-) > Wildblue uses also a form of Surfbeam but with more restrictions and > less options. > DOCSIS is the system used by cable/dsl > > Arjan, I don;t know that inviting people to portscan you is really the thing you want to do with public mailng list archives, nor do I think should you post explicit servcices you're running on the network... :-) >> 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 ------------------------------------------------------------