About Bob Waltenspiel Expertise Bandwidth involving router-out technology, i.e. WAN, VPN, BGP4 Routing, ATM, IP over SONET, IPSec, DSL, T1, DS3, OC3, OC12, Gigabit Ethernet.
Question We have a vacation rental business....have two computers at home in different rooms and also two computers a few miles away in an office which I do emails on for the business. The other complication is that we have to travel to our 4 locations of the vacation rentals several times a year, taking our laptops with us. We are now on dial-up Earthlink (along with over 500 spam emails pouring in per day..but that is another subject) Quest has just offered us a DSL highspeed access in a package deal with msn. The problem is that I got 5 different tech people to explain to me how it works having the 4 computers and the need to travel with a laptop. I received 5 different explanations as to how it works..all in opposition to the others. One says the 2 computers at home have to be actually physically connected (they are in different rooms) Another said that the DSL phone line will work with any computer in house. One said that I still can use msn dialup in the remote office in town. The other said I cannot ...that everything has to be DSL. One said that I can attach a wireless modem to the other computers and the traveling laptops and it will all work with satellite (even in steep mountain areas where two of our locations are) Another said I would have to buy DSL for all the vacation rentals separately and that the wireless modem would not work otherwise. Some said that MSN would work either with DSL or wireless in any location. Others said it was a package deal and would not work with dial-up. This is the Qwest technical group...all of them. Do you have any information for me on what are the real facts? I've given up on Qwest but am interested in having DSL and only one line into the home instead of two. Look forward to your reply.
Answer What I have used is the Sprint or Verizon Air Cards, which are wireless cellular internet cards that give you roughly 128kbps to your laptop...if you are just getting email, that will be more than enough.
The cost is roughly $80 or so, and you can swap the cards from one laptop to another, so this might be the best method for you to get connectivity since you are so mobile.
