On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 13:00, Bill Bassett-Scarfe wrote: > [Forwarded to the list] > > Hi > > I'm a graphic designer with a problem. I have a catch 22 situation in > that 99% of my work is now internet based, giving me the freedom to move > to my 140 acre property between Pemberton & Nannup on the Vasse Hwy. But > the closest phone is 2km and doesn't support ADSL or ISDN if I do get a > line in. My Kyocera CDMA mobile works fine but only in the car kit but > the car kit data suite only has a serial port and doesn't work through > my USB connector to my iBook. > Telstra Bigpond Two way Broadband Satelite seems fine but doesn't > support Macintosh. > Has anyone had similar problems and found a solution that may help.
Optus has a product called SatWeb which supports an Ethernet socket. There is a Linux client available, so I'm *guessing* that you'd be able to actually compile that under OS X. Alternatively, if you have a spare PC lying round, you can make that the gateway, a 386 should be fine. -- ()/)/)() ..ASCII for Onno.. |>>? ..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 8888 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
