Yeah, we've had real good luck with the external Ricochet modem. Of course, the speeds aren't anything compared to what I get at the office on DSL, or what Amber reported with Starband, but it's convenient for home. It fits the needs it's used for.
We do have 3 or 4 machines on it at home (not all in use at the same time), through Intel's 1.6 Mb/s AnyPoint wireless network. I'm not so thrilled with this Intel's wireless network as I am with Ricochet :-) The network was very handy to install without running any cables, but that's about it. Network traffic takes up over half of the available 1.6 Mb/s, and the rest is divided between upload and download, and between the 4 machines. So all the sudden you can only transfer at 50 kb/s between machines. I must have missed that in the fine print. Suck. Also, you can't use Napster, or some other P2P programs, on it except on the network server.
Anyways, for any of you interested in the wireless network to go with your wireless internet...conventional methods might be the better route ;-)
Have a great day,
loster
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