Anyone know if you can use a DSL Router to share Starband satelite broadband?

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Tue Jan 07, 2003 7:32 pm

My cousin lives on a mountain in Colorado. He just got Starband and wants to share it without using ICS (which is what he's doing now).

Starband says it can't be done, but Starband newgroup posts seem to imply it can be although no one has posted a How-to guide as far as I can tell.

The porblem is that he's currently using the USB port on the Starband modem and has it connected tot he desktop. As an experiment I walked him thorugh connecting it via the network port to his laptop, but it wouldn't work. We got DHCP but couldn't access anything on the Internet, and couldn't ping anything on the internet although we could ping the gateway.

I know there's some Starband software installed in the desktop but I don't know if it's necessary to have it in there.

Also, I was wondering if the service was keyed to the MAC address of the desktop (some older DSL systems used to do that) but from the newsgroup posts it doesn't sound like it.

Anyone have any experience with this?

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Tue Jan 07, 2003 9:11 pm

at one point my office was going to get sat internet access and network it - it was whatever they were selling at radio shack- i'm not sure of the exact details but our tech guy of the week had it set up on a network at his house

buncha stuff here - you've probably already looked at

http://www.starbandusers.com/networking.htm

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Tue Jan 07, 2003 10:52 pm

THANK YOU! Lot's of useful info on that site! Also explains his crappy upload speeds (he's only getting 21K most of the time right now).