http://www.hughesnet.com/
go there to see about satelite internet, I saw a commercial for it once in a town in the middle of nowhere in nebraska, it says its broadband satelite internet


if you use WEP protocal or newer protocals like these its extremely safe:
WPA-PSK (TKIP)
WPA2-PSK (AES)
WPA-PSK (TKIP) + WPA2-PSK (AES)
and trust me it is secure, also you can disable the broadcast of your SSID so the only people that can get in are the ones that know its there and they then have to know the exact SSID plus they have to know the key (password), its like logging into email, only safer

also just so you know I use a cabel modem, with a wireless router on top of that, my internet is actually as fast, or faster as being directly conected to the modem and as safe, but I do have the newest router avaliable and expensive

 

 

 

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I had used wireless internet connection in the past. It was in my friends place. My friend has a wireless internet connection at home, luckily he let me try once and it worked on my system as well. The wireless didn't have access key to access the network. When I switched on my wireless LAN it connects automatically. I think the wireless internet connection providers didn't bother to lock with some key number and whoever comes within that network could just use the wireless connection. It was pretty fast as well. And the system tray of wireless internet is very cute....

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Yeah we have a wireless network at my place, I set it up myself. The computer I work with (in the office) is directly connected to the wifi network though, our two laptops are wirelessly connected to the internet. There is a tiny drop in speed because you added an extra hop to the packets which need to be send and received, but in the end it's not much of a problem with high speed connections available lately.
The good is ofcourse that you can sit whereever you want in the house, which is really relaxing because you aren't bound to the office anymore... (Yet I sit in the office the entire day hehe)

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i would be able to use wireless soon. that's cool. the only place i can get wireless connection is at school. and since my mom has just bought a laptop with wireless connection, i would be able to use it at school for my thesis. that's cool. hehe.

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remote internet is good , but it has its own disadvantage, for exampe if you use blue tooth the device which you are using must be of high standard,else you loose speed

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Yes I did. I have been using 802.11b network for a few years, probably more then 4 years. I know that most wireless routers nowadays use 802.11g, which has a transfer rate of 54Mbps compared to 11Mbps for 802.11b. However, I have already switched back to the Old Stone Age, that is, to connect my computers using wires again. I switched back because the ping time for wireless network is inevitable about 4 times slower then a wired network. More importantly, in my city, there wireless networks have become an endemic, where so many people are using wireless networks that I can connect to more then 10 access points in my flat at various location. The noise is so intensive that my wireless network is not very stable. Sometimes there may be overlap of channels, sometimes there are interferences. I am so disappointed by the wireless technology and the government’s reluctance to open up more channels that I have chosen to wire my computers again. This is a sad story, but a true one. I don’t like my wireless router.

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I use wireless but since we have a brick walled house the signal has to be boosted by other routers throughout the house but all in all i find it reliable and fast, i like 3com routers (very biased) which is what we have, but the dlink and link sys seem good aswell. Only problem for me is that when my sister is connected to the downstairs office router the signal from the upstairs router suffors alot since it isnt wired but recieving the wifi from downstairs and boosting it.

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i dont like the sound of wireless internet cuz some lucky devil can just come along and PING on your internet without you knowing wireless is best for laptops

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ok first off dont get the wireless internet from the isp... get a good conection and if you still want wireless get a wireless router (50 -60 bucks for a decent one) and go from there itll be alot faster and you can gaurentee the safety

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I don't know weather this counts as wireless internet and i apologise if im off topic, but im browsing and replying to this with a phone lol (nokia n-gage qd) with a mobile version of opera. I also have ftp software and text editor etc for my phone and build full sites with it! Mainly wap sites but yesterday i did install web forums with extra mod's installed also. Its extremly slow and hard to navigate web sites with this method but it my only option right now ;-)

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