Anyone got one of these things, how do they work are they just a receiver or do you need another email address.
I work from home frequently and need access to email – so it is quite expensive staying on sites that charge for email and internet access, so I was thinking if I could link my laptop to my own system it would eventually pay for itself, but just not too sure how the system works
Any help would be appreciated
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Why not just get a pay as you go dongle. Our vodafone one cost us less than £20 for the whole season and we got all our emails and quite a lot of internet on our laptop.
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Satellite internet is very expensive and in my view just for e-mail would be totally OTT. As suggest Mobile Broadband would be the cheapest option and even having a dongle for two networks would work out cheaper than satellite internet.
You can buy a satellite module that will attach to your laptop, this will allow you to download only only, as it is a one way street, the return path for you to send stuff is via landline or dongle so no point realy, to have full internet use both send/recieve you need an uplink facility, huge dish and mighty expensive, when I worked at Sky they explained to us a domestic system that was about to be launched that would allow full internet use from a small dish, it was the brainchild of SES ASTRA, who operate the satellite's for Sky, that was around 5 years ago, and I guess the product was put back in the can, as often happens with what we think is new stuff.
the broadband dongle is a good way to go - some mobile phones allow internet sharing when connected to a computer by USB or bluetooth and so will act as a dongle. Try googling your phone model along with internet sharing to see what turns up.
If your phone supports internet sharing check the data costs from your service provider
Get a i phone sync it to your home computer then all your e mails will come through your phone. the internet is good you can post messages on this forum sitting in the comfort of your own tent.
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Topic: Satelite with email
