Hi Gerhard,

Monday, June 26, 2006, 11:51:18 AM, you wrote:
<snip!>

> Patrick, it sounds to me as if you should explain the geographical
> situation (how many computers, how far away) better. It seems that some
> here think of a local network connected to an ISP, which doesn't sound as
> if this was your case.

> Basically, it is the network connection that determines who can access
> what. If you have only a wire to the local gateway (typical in a LAN), th=
en
> that's your only way to connect to the internet. Or if you have only a
> wireless point-to-point connection to the location where the gateway sits,
> then that's again your only way to connect to the internet.

> But if, as you mentioned, every location has their own connection to a
> satellite provider, things get a bit more complex, and you can't easily
> enforce people to access the internet through a gateway of yours: they are
> already connected to the internet through the satellite. (Of course you m=
ay
> also buy a corporate style point-to-point satellite link and again route
> all this traffic through your one gateway, but they probably are more
> expensive than straight internet access.)

> Gerhard

The colonies are located in farming areas of Manitoba, and in farming
areas of the Mid-Western US. Each colony may have a dairy, a hog barn,
turkey and/or chicken barns and other farm buildings; some may be as
far as a mile apart (and downwind, if possible :-)). Most colonies do
not have networked computers, and only one or two would have Internet
- the farm managers, usually.

I just got a reply from a satellite ISP that said it would be possible
to become a commercial VNO, or Virtual Network Operator.

<http://www.idirect.net/vno.shtml>

Her email, which I don't understand fully, states:

> To establish the VNO (Virtual Network Operator):
>
> VNO package includes:
> 1 Protocol Processor =93PP=94
> 1 Network Management Server =93NMS=94
> 1 RX/TX Line card
> $nn,nnnn fee
>
> For a small additional fee they can purchase Co-Location space to
> place a Policy router or other equipment needed to provide them the
> content filtering or other routing or filtering they desire.

I left out the fee, since she might not appreciate it being published.
The satellite bandwith is with VSAT-Systems.com

-- Best regards,
Patrick Murphy
James Valley Colony
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