On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 11:39:12AM -0400, Tarus Balog wrote: > > On Aug 3, 2004, at 11:04 AM, Aaron Caudle wrote: > > >Background: > >I installed a VoIP phone down in Haiti last October and was > >successfull in getting it running. It connects back to a gateway in > >Asheville at the company I work for. Its connected by a Huges > >Satellite connection (DirecPC). The satellite has a built in gateway > > I was a DirecPC sufferer for three years, so mebbe I can help.
I used it reasonably successfully for four or five years, until I got DSL. > When I used DirecPC, you had to have a Windows box running the DirecPC > software. In other words, the satellite had coax that ran to the > "modem", and the "modem" connected to the Windows box via USB. I come from an earlier incarnation of DirecPC, when there was a card in the PC, with a 75-ohm coax connector, which connected directly to the dish hardware. This was the version that used a dial-up "uplink". I ran that version from a Linux box, using software provided by the Hughes / Caldera people in Utah. I'm not sure that my experience would help any, since I'm sure that you aren't trying to use dial-up for one direction. I did find, however, that if you managed to penetrate the first ring or two of Tech. Support you will find people who actually know what they are talking about. I suspect that to properly do diagnostics, you are going to have to be "behind" one of the DirecPC systems. Do you have a system "locally" that you could use to determine where the "filter" might be, rather than actually doing a road trip? I have recently been noticing some port blockages that I haven't in the past, including those related to VOIP. Brian -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
