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Sat technology is starting to become a great resource for Internet users, allowing high bandwidth in downloading and many other interesting services. This document wants to investigate "State of Art" of Sat connections in Linux environment, how to get them speeder and to share with many clients. You can found latest version of this document at http://www.fatamorgana.com/bertolinux and http://www.hack-it.net/How-To/Sat-HOWTO.html.
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Sat (Satellite Technology) HOWTO
Roberto Arcomano berto@fatamorgana.com, Florindo Santoro flosan@hack-it.net
v1.81 - July 31, 2002Sat technology is starting to become a great resource for Internet users, allowing high bandwidth in downloading and many other interesting services. This document wants to investigate "State of Art" of Sat connections in Linux environment, how to get them speeder and to share with many clients. You can found latest version of this document at http://www.fatamorgana.com/bertolinux and http://www.hack-it.net/How-To/Sat-HOWTO.html.
1. Introduction
2. Background Knowledge
- 2.1 What about satellite
- 2.2 How does it work?
- 2.3 Other technologies
- 2.4 What is the max bandwidth?
- 2.5 How much does it cost?
- 2.6 What are the satellites used?
- 2.7 What ISPs give Sat Internet Access?
- 2.8 What else?
3. Technical Information
- 3.1 General working
- 3.2 Frequencies
- 3.3 DVB Receiver Card
- 3.4 Data Link Level DVB setting
- 3.5 TCP/IP working
- 3.6 Authentication
- 3.7 Services I can use with a sat connection
4. Requirements
5. Base setup
6. Configuration under Linux
- 6.1 Drivers installation
- 6.2 Setting up /etc/dvbd.conf
- 6.3 Dvbd daemon
- 6.4 How to config EON service
- 6.5 How to use Netsystem service
- 6.6 How to use Sat Node service
- 6.7 OpenSky service under Linux
7. Configuration under Windows
8. Appendix A - Notes
9. Appendix B - Well Known Sat ISP setting value
10. Links
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