This does not seem like a all together good solution. On top of the difficulties mentioned below the only thing they guarantee as far as access goes is latency. On Mon, 20 Nov 2000 15:13:42 -0600, Brent Harding wrote: > I've heard of this satellite net access thing that's supposed to be >2-way on the Kim Komando show called starband. It's from dish network, and >they include the dish, antenna, modem, and the software used. >Unfortunately, it hooks to the usb port, the modem. Another option is to >get the package from radio shack that has a tranceiver card instead of the >usb modem, with msn service, but you have to buy the PC. Which would be >usable in linux? They don't seem to offer a modem connecting to an ethernet >card to my knowledge. Raul A. Gallegos -- raul at asmodean.net msn id: ragallegos at hotmail.com -- icq: 5283055 http://www.asmodean.net