Anyone have experience using a Wireless Internet Connection (Starband, Etc)
 

Does anyone have experiece using Starband or any other wireless internet connection?

In a few weeks I'll be moving to a farm in rural Northern Wisconsin.

I will be needing a Wireless internet connection.
I will just go insane trying to work with a 28 kbs dial-up :feels-hot

Starband seems to be the most established and the best price. Their price is $199 setup plus $49.99 a month for a 3 year contract.

Directway from Direct TV is quite a bit more money.

Are there any other services I should look into?

--gel

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Anybody?

Mmmmm shared over saturated DVB Ku band channels.

Don't be so quick to throw away that 28.8k , you'll need it everytime it;

a. rains
b. someone uses P2P on the same transponder.

I'd go with a homebrew 802.11 and get the neighbours to coop with you.

Actually the nearest neighbor is a mile away. lol

The nearest place that you can get high speed is 20 miles away.

just got mine a couple weeks ago..(starband) and it's a nightmare..my only option here though

Angelofporn what kind of problems are you having?

A friend of mine has a starband. He had some problems. It seemed most of his problems seemed to be because he had the starband running on a win 98 machine running winproxy.

Thoug compared to dialup the speed was great.

It has a ridculous ping time though as bad as 3 seconds.

Could you ICQ me? 169927792

I'm just replacing a custom 802.11 today in Niagra Falls with a T1.

It was a pentium running FreeBSD, a Lucent wireless, a YDI amp/ DC injector and a 36dbi parabolic. ($7000 at the time, now $450)

It was doing 5meg at 19 miles crossing the river 3 times! The guy only switched after some 4 years of operation because trees grew in the way that he can't convince/pay the owner to cut down.

Don't dismiss it so fast...
As a solution it's come along way since the Linux guys figured out how to steal the BSD driver code. You can leap frog ma and pa who want email all the way back to a CO and get some real speed (and part time job maintaining the gear)

Directional 802.11 kicks ass.

My game plan is to maintain the satelite system as my primary with a dialup as a back up.

Don't get me wrong I'm not dismissing 802.11. I just need something I can get going quickly.

I was actually thinking about the directional antenna idea inorder to get internet to my in-laws a mile away. I believe I can get line of site from the top of their silo to the top of ours.

some_idiot could you point me in the right direction to learn more?