filePro Printing over a Satellite

[Walter Vaughan]

Mike Schwartz-PC Support & Services wrote:

>>I'm thinking about using direcTV's professional installation (with fixed
>>IP address) on our 40foot trailer that goes all over the US,
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>	First, none of the satellite data dishes are recommended for mobile
>installations.  (I've wanted one on my RV so that I could use it as a
>portable office for years.)  The reason is that it requires some very
>sophisticated equipment to aim the dishes.  It's cost prohibitive for most
>people to purchase this equipment and learn how to use it.
>
Even though this was a private message, I'll break protcol and move it back
into the public arena since this may be of help to others.

Acccording to the sales engineer at directway, the FCC will not allow them
to install the dish on any moveable structure. On the other hand,
they directed me to MotoSat http://www.motosat.com who modifies the
dish and installs a GPS that finds the satellites and uploads your
position to comply with FCC rules. They only supply the hardware, a
second company, GroundControl http://www.groundcontrol.com supplies
the IP feed. GroudControl's feed is not bandwidth throttled like the
home or professional level direcTV (you get a two hour blackout if you
exceed a 250Meg download in a hour). That can be good or bad I guess.

I guess the goverment considers the ability to contact a satellite some
sort of "munitions" that must be monitored and pinpointed if needed.

Most of the Nascar Race Teams in my area have these I have discovered,
so I hope to be able to test one out before we lay out the cash for one...

They are coming out with a new model that is supposed to as brain
dead simple as hooking up a linksys router to a cable modem is now.
No dedicated PC/gateway PC required in a few weeks.

It costs a lot more than the home dish systems, but not
nearly as bad as I thought it might.
--
Walter