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To: elmatador who wrote (8604)9/9/2001 2:34:08 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (2) of 74559
 
I got interested in satellite internet in 1998, when I wanted to be able to hook a laptop to the Internet everywhere I went, and was very surprised to find out that I couldn't. It seemed so obvious. A friend of mine gave me the name of a guy he knew who specialized in laptops, and I called him to find out how to do it, and he said I couldn't. That didn't make sense. The more I learned about it, the more I realized why it couldn't be done, but I still think it's something people would pay for, if they could get it - high speed data to laptops, without using a briefcase sized antenna. Cell phones connected to laptops transmitting high speed data is sort of obvious, isn't it? Not sure what speed cell phones can do now, but it's still not very impressive
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