Is anyone using StarBand Satellite internet with Linux?

angelrod · 10-22-2003, 08:24 PM

Hi, I just got a StarBand Satellite Connection and I want to use it under Linux. I recieved a 360 model satellite modem and I've make a lot of googling with no luck trying to find a howto to set this system to my Linux box. I know it is possible because some people is mentioning this.

I've done a search here but there are only 2 threads about his topic with no answers.

Can anyone helps? I'd really appreciate it.

wdingus · 10-22-2003, 08:56 PM

Is the 360 ethernet? If it's only hookup method is USB you'll probably be out of luck. If it's ethernet It's probably acting as a DHCP server and your Linux machine or basically anything should be able to get an IP from it and go. Things will be slower with Linux than Windows probably though. Starband has some Windows software that can be installed to speed things up by faking half of the ACK/NAK acknowledgement sequence. Causes the amount of data going up/down from the satellite to be less by faking part of the transaction via this software. Good luck!

angelrod · 10-23-2003, 02:34 PM

Hi, thanks for answering, yeah it's the 360 model that has both interfaces (USB and Ethernet). I´m going to try it as soon as I get home tonight and let you know how was it.

Thanks again.

angelrod · 10-24-2003, 04:46 PM

Bad luck guys

. I tried just connecting the 360 modem directly to my Red Hat and I can get the IP, gateway, DNS's, etc. by DHCP, but I'm not able to open any website. The thing is that I can ping, traceroute to any host on the internet (I'm getting very bad times but is working). Also I can ping to the starband host from another location (so I'm visible on the net). Do you have any idea what would I be missing?

wdingus · 10-24-2003, 07:01 PM

If you can ping or traceroute to a site _by name_ then you should be able to web surf to it.. Unless outbound port 80 is blocked or you have a non-existent proxy configured or something like that... If you can ping yahoo.com see if you can do this "telnet yahoo.com 80" for instance. If so then the web browser should be able to do the same thing...

Yeah, 23,000 miles up... trip up and trip down takes >250ms alone.

angelrod · 10-25-2003, 10:25 AM

Yeah, I can ping and traceroute a site by the name but I can't surf the net. In a fact as you told me I already tried to telnet, ftp and ssh to my server and I keep getting the "Connection tined out".