From: "Sam Lewis" Received: from mxout1.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.165] verified) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTP id 340493 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 07 Sep 2006 19:53:44 -0400 Received: from mxin1.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.175]) by mxout1.mailhop.org with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1GLTgV-0000bS-U1 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 07 Sep 2006 19:53:28 -0400 Received: from apophis.email.starband.net ([148.78.247.50]) by mxin1.mailhop.org with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1GLTgV-0005D8-ET for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 07 Sep 2006 19:53:27 -0400 Received: from [192.168.244.2] (vsat-148-63-140-148.c189.t7.mrt.starband.net [148.63.140.148]) by apophis.email.starband.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k87NrF7d011085 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 19:53:17 -0400 Message-ID: <4500B0F5.5050909@rollanet.org> Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 18:53:25 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050728 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 X-WinProxy-AntiVirus: Passed X-WinProxy-AntiVirus-Message: Scanned by http://www.Ositis.com/WinProxy X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.86.2, clamav-milter version 0.86 on apophis.email.starband.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Mail-Handler: MailHop by DynDNS X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: > 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). Thats what I have now. An old PentII 400 with Win2K. I would really like to recycle that machine for other uses though and go go back to using my OS/2 server as my gateway. Sam > > 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 >>> >>> Scanned by WinProxy http://www.Ositis.com/