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Goldrush2001

12/31/05 1:09 PM

#68764 RE: xanadu #68738

If there is wireless (cell phone type) service in the area the connection can be via a wireless modem card in the laptop.

If not, then you would need a satellite dish. This connectivity is more expensive than wireless and mobile (take it anywhere) is even more expensive. It also requires aiming the dish at the satellite at each different place you want to use it.
Ron
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Goldrush2001

12/31/05 1:11 PM

#68766 RE: xanadu #68738

And yes, it is broadband, maybe not high end broadband, but many times faster than dial-up. Ron
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lesnshawn

01/01/06 11:52 AM

#68996 RE: xanadu #68738

OT: xanadu, yeah, but it's skechy. Around here where I live, even on windy, cloudy days the signal can get distorted and your SOL w/ your connection...nada.

Sure, on a deserted South Pacific isle beach w/ most of the year's weather being calm and sunny I can see connection being pretty constant. Unfortunately, most folks don't live in areas like that.

With GlobeTel's Sanswire Stratellites, I think they overcome that problem since they're in the earths atomosphere. That's why I think the government and military is so keen on working w/ them.

Happy New Year!
lns