Networking a Starband connection

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December 20th, 2001, 07:54 AM
Miq

Networking a Starband connection

I asked about this yesterday in the chatroom but figured the more suggestions the better. Ok, I got starband yesterday. After I had to explain to the guy installing it how to install NIC drivers (yes I had to show him how to do it) we finally got it up and running on one computer. The connection goes from a satellite disk to a modem (a model 360), to the first nic in my computer. I went and installed a second NIC so I could network the connection out to the other 4 computers. Starband recommended winproxy but everytime I try it, all it does it freezes the computer. So I also tried ICS but that just makes the modem's data accelerator turn off. BTW, the satellite is connected to a 98se machine and going to be networked to 98se, me, 20, and probley an xp machine. Tech666 said to try 2k's ICS which I haven't tried yet but I just wanted a few more options. Oh ya, all the computers are connected to aan 8 port hub and I can file share with them just fine. Thanks for anything :)
December 20th, 2001, 10:11 PM
smccue

I just finished a job sharing a Starband 360 model for a small office. This office consists of 12 workstations ranging from Win 95 to Winxp and a 16 port 10/100 switch. I installed a Linksys 10/100 DSL/Cable 4 port router ($89.00) beside the Starband modem and linked them together. Then used a crossover cable from the Linksys into the 16-port switch.

Note**
Over the course of a week the IP address from Starband changed twice. So by using the Linksys and only programming the DNS entries and leaving the IP dynamic any IP changes didn't matter.

Also, watch your cables, the patch cable that comes with the 360 is a crossover
January 3rd, 2003, 04:01 PM
Skywalker93

networking Starband 360 w/ router

Ok, here's what seems to be a "no-brainer" but yet I can't figure it out....

We just had Starband satellite internet connected today. Works great when connected from satellite --> modem --> PC. But I threw a Belkin wireless router in the works, and now I can ping out to the Internet but I cannot view anything. When logged into the router, it shows the IP address, gateway, and DNS entries to the ISP (everything is DHCP). The local networked computers all see our internal LAN just fine (which is DHCP as well), but none can browse the Internet.

I manually entered the DNS entries into the client PC's, but nothing changed. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!
January 3rd, 2003, 04:07 PM
NooNoo

Wow talk about dredging up an old thread... Skywalker93 you are allowed to start a new one as your thread is a router issue more than a starband issue... however...

if you enter http://216.239.39.101 in one of the pc's browsers, what do you get?
January 3rd, 2003, 04:31 PM
Skywalker93

Sorry for using such an old post - I did a search for Starband and just went from there.

I put http://216.239.39.101 into the browser window, and it times out like before, but the only difference is that it changes the address to http://?%20216.239.39.101

Does that make any difference?

Also, I found on Starbandusers.com site where they networked their connection, but they use a PC in between the Modem and the router. Don't quite understand why they did that. Any ideas?

http://www.starbandusers.com/ncs.htm
January 3rd, 2003, 04:48 PM
NooNoo

Looks like you put a space between the http:// and the ip address.

As to the networking setup in your link... it looks like this is the way you have to set it up because of the starband insistence on a crossover cable between the modem and nic.

I wonder why you would bother with a full blown router other than for firewalling....?

Wouldnt a switch after the computer that has two nics be just as good? (firewall issue asside)
January 3rd, 2003, 09:02 PM
Skywalker93

The reason that I wanted to use a router is that this one is wireless. We don't have a lot of room here for wires to be all over the place. But so far, I'm starting to think that wired is the way to go.
Still having problems getting internet access to the rest of the network. Can get my one laptop to work, but not the others. Thought I'd use the dual-NIC idea on the laptop, plugging the modem into the onboard NIC, and using the wireless NIC to assign IP address to the wireless router. That doesn't seem to work either.
Think I'll just get some sleep and try to figure out what's going wrong. Haven't slept in 36 hrs, and I think I'll be thinking more clearly when I've gotten some rest. If you come up with any ideas, please let me know.
Thanks for your help!
April 14th, 2004, 08:31 PM
Adam Cohen

Linksys and Starband

Quote:

Originally Posted by smccue

I just finished a job sharing a Starband 360 model for a small office. This office consists of 12 workstations ranging from Win 95 to Winxp and a 16 port 10/100 switch. I installed a Linksys 10/100 DSL/Cable 4 port router ($89.00) beside the Starband modem and linked them together. Then used a crossover cable from the Linksys into the 16-port switch.

Note**
Over the course of a week the IP address from Starband changed twice. So by using the Linksys and only programming the DNS entries and leaving the IP dynamic any IP changes didn't matter.

Also, watch your cables, the patch cable that comes with the 360 is a crossover

smccue I just read a reply that you wrote about a job you did with starband and linksys router and switch. I am very curious on how you configured everything. I have a friend and I am trying to help him out with networking his small office. I am a little more tech oriented than he is. If you would be so kind and let me know exactly what you did that would be great. I look forward to hearing from you. Adam Cohen
April 15th, 2004, 11:20 PM
Gollo

I don't know if he still posts here. You might try a pm. His last post in this thread was 3 years ago!!! Just FYI
April 16th, 2004, 07:18 PM
Adam Cohen

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gollo

I don't know if he still posts here. You might try a pm. His last post in this thread was 3 years ago!!! Just FYI

Thank you for the information.