broadband is here!

[beermat]

Wooo.
feck off big satellite dish in the garden now.

BT Satellite Broadband 500/1, a two way satellite system (Gilsat 360 satellite "modem" connected via ethernet to a NIC in Larry (a Win 2K pro PC), 2nd NIC is to the house LAN)

Now to figure out how to get the new PC (called Larry, see, it's a sacrifical lamb / goat :) to do NATting from the house LAN NIC to the satellite "modem" NIC.
Tried Windows ICS and that was a pile of doggy doos (FFS, changing the LAN NIC IP address to 192.168.0.1, I never told it to do dat!).

Suppose I could just change mindygoths Smoothwall router PC, take the ISDN card out & whack a NIC on it for RED, tell it to be 192.168.0.2 and then connect that to the LAN NIC in LARRY.

the 500/1 was expensive enough, mindygoths work wouldn't have got her the 500/4 option that has a NAT router built into the satellite "modem" thing, hence the messing about :)

Comments

[dan-lane.livejournal.com]

A long long long long long time ago I used Wingate... ISTR it being quite good... but this was a LONG time ago!

[beermat]

Aye, downloaded WinGate, tried it, couldnae figure it out :)

[sheepthief.livejournal.com]

I'd just get a NAT router anyway - they're not expensive, they're trivial to set up, and then you can forget about them.

[beermat]

As I understand it, the Gilat 360 satellite "modem" doesn't talk TCP/IP, it talks its own thang over the ethernet (or USB) connection to a PC, then there's a wadge of software loaded on the PC to talk to the satellite "modem" :(

the Gilat 360e (which BT sell as the Satellite Broadband 500/4 product) talks TCP/IP over its ethernet port so can be used with a router quite normally.

[sheepthief.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm. Well, I suppose it could be true. But I'd research it anyway, 'cos it sounds like a pile of arse to me!

[beermat]

yup, time to throw an ikkle linux box at it and see what it says when I try to DHCP from it :)

[lostcarpark.livejournal.com]

Ah, that's why the W2K box rather than something sensible like Linux?

(Not that W2K doesn't have it's uses, just who'd want to pay MS licensing for something like a router?)

[beermat]

If *have* to work with MS stuff, then MSDN is ones friend.
All the OSs (Win2K, XP, ME, 2003 etc) to play with & other stuff (visual studio etc) for 600 or so a year.

[lostcarpark.livejournal.com]

You could say I have to... I'm currently building a large ASP.NET app. MSDN is a very valuable resource, especially when you can get your company to pay for it.

Of course, our only non-English subsidiary is in Poland, and to get English and Polish CDs the only option was to get "All languages" which means we get truckloads of CDs we don't want...

[beermat]

I used to get E & W European packs as well as English on previous subscription, that was a lot of CDs.

May have to do *all* languages soon as the other half want sto play with Japanese Win2K. Masochist that she is :)

cost of satellite broadband

[spodlife]

So, how much did it all cost?

Re: cost of satellite broadband

[beermat]

mindygoths company have paid for the install & monthly rental costs, will have to ask them for the figures but I *think* it's something like £600 install and £60 / mth rental.

For 500Kbits/sec (375K down, 125K up or something like that) bandwidth,
always on (rain excepted :)
but with a limit of 750Mbyte download per week :(