Satellite and Macs? (1 Viewer)

[DeborahK]

I am cross posting this here and in the DBS area, hoping to find an answer for a desperate friend. Here is the question:

"We have a house in the central California mountains, in an area with no TV cable service and no DSL, just a standard telephone line. We'd like to get satellite Internet service, but we have Macintosh computers, not PCs. Has anybody found a satellite sevice that works

with Macs?"

Thanks if you can help,

Deborah

 

[DonRoeber]

Perhaps they can get a PC, and use network sharing software to share the internet connection to their macs?

 

[Joseph S]

I've heard of people doing this.
http://www.starbandusers.com/etherme.htm
By removing the USB card in the modem it defaults to ethernet. You can then hook it to a Mac or Router.
This really shouldn't be an issue at all. It's not like it takes a genius to plug in ethernet and choose Connect via DHCP in the TCP/IP or Network(OS X) control panel. It just works without any sort of "technical know-how." DirecPC and Starband are losing a lot of customers over something that would take 1 minute to teach the installer techs.
Here's a few more links.
http://forums.delphiforums.com/n/mb/...lat&msg=1243.1
http://www.macworld.com/2001/08/29/starband_part2.html
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http://www.macworld.com/2001/08/29/starband_part2.html

 

[DeborahK]

Joseph and Don,

Many thanks for the helpful replies. I am passing your suggestions on to my friend. She is a programmer (now retired) and her husband is a professor of physics (semi-retired), so these people are by no means techno-phobes. They had considered getting a cheap PC just to use for the internet, but were trying to fing a more elegant and simpler solution. I will post here what they decide to do.

Thanks, again, guys.

Deborah