Analog Modems?

[Jerry Feldman]

The only solutions that I know of are:
1. Satellite. I have not looked at satellite for a number of years. At
one time, there was a satellite company that was pretty decent and had
an agreement with Dish Network, but that agreement ended in litigation,
and the 2 people I knew with their service became rather unhappy.
2. Microwave. My former boss at Compaq, has a home in South Carolina,
and gets his Internet connectivity via microwave. Additionally, a friend
in Nebraska whose wife is a physician also has microwave. However, I
don't know if there are any providers up north.

In general, satellite costs about twice that of cable, and while the
company I referred to was at one time Linux-friendly, because of the
litigation et. al., they started to cut out some things, and may not be
Linux friendly any longer.


On 06/22/2009 05:03 AM, Brian Chabot wrote:
> This is going to sound odd, but I have a friend who lives in the boonies
> who only has an analog phone line for internet access and word has it
> they won't have broadband (or most cell signals) for a couple more years.
>
> I was wondering if anyone here might know of an affordable, stand-alone
> device which would server as an analog modem on one side and ethernet or
> wifi on the other?
>
> The idea is to set their house up with a LAN where either their main
> computer or a laptop could use the device as a dial-on-demand access
> device and a router to the outside world while connected.
>
> I'm trying to see if something can be set up so as not to have to use
> any one computer as the router...
>   

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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