Can't home network through satellite modem

Ok, I have broadband connection (satellite) through Starband. The modem is identified as “360”, don’t know the manufacturor. Tried to set up a wireless network, Linksys, 2.4 gHz. I can get the passthrough ethernet port to run fine, but am unable to network to any other computer. I spoke to have the nations of the world as Linksys support and they could not help. Starband won’t help as they want to sell me their own router at an inflated price. Does anyone have an idea as to why it wouldn’t work and what I can do to make it work?

possibly the sat modem is also acting as a dhcp server, anlong with your linksys router. also they may have the same ip (internal NAT) address, most likely 192.168.1.1. Go into the linksys setup system and change the IP and turn off DHCP (try all combos)

I’ve seen on TechTV that some satellite modems (for lack of a better term) require software on the host computer to make it work. If that’s the case, you may be screwed as far as connection sharing, though setting up a proxy server MIGHT work.

I’d search Techtv.com, they may have found a work around, if this is the case.

I also have Starband and have found the ONLY approved way (from Starband) is with a program called WinProxy. You can download a theoretical working copy and try it for 30 days. Then it’s $69.
We couldn’t get the damn thing to work right…spent many hours diddling with various settings.
Don’t know about WinProxy’s tech services.

Thanks for the information. I thought I was just doing something stupid and hoping it was stupid and simple. My thinking was, the modem translates the satellite signal into something any computer can understand and that by interposing a router, all I was doing was intercepting and transmitting that understandable information. Guess it’s not that simple. Sort of annoying, because obviously they have purposely made it difficult to network without any real advantage to them. Well, actually maybe they just want to force me to upgrade to their small business plan which includes a router (wired) for four computers. Unfortunately, where I live the offer neither DSL nor cable, so this is my only broadband choice.

My current wireless setup works this way:

  1. Internet connection comes in through the cable modem to LanCard1 of the Primary PC.

  2. Primary PC has a LanCard2. An ethernet cable goes from the LanCard2 into the Wireless Router (Netgear, 802.11b). The wire goes into the LAN port of the Router, not the WAN port. The WAN port is unconnected.

  3. The Wireless Router then supports upto 32 wireless devices. Currently 1 Laptop. Additionally, 3 PCs can be wired to the remaining LAN ports on the Router.

Primary PC 1 is set for Internet Connection Sharing, where the connection on LanCard1 is the ICS connection. This makes it act like a DHCP server. So the Wireless Router’s DHCP must be turned off. This will let the ICS assign an IP address to the Wireless Laptop. The Router will essentially work as a switch.

I need to use this config 'coz the Internet connection from my ISP has to go into the Primary PC to work. It’s got an authentication client that can’t be run on the router, and just MAC address cloning doesn’t help.

Let me know if you’re looking at a similar setup. I’ll help you with it, as the dopers helped me with it :slight_smile:

I’ve installed about 120 Starbands and I’ve used one in my office for about a year and a half. The only way to network a 360 is to share the internet connection from the host PC. Ifyou are running ME, 2K or XP you need no proxy software. I recall that 98SE will also work without proxy software but I’m not 100% sure that I’m recalling that correctly.

The best, most stable configuration (imo) is to run two network cards in the host PC and connect to your Starband unit via the first NIC.

You then connect the host (and clients) to a LAN port on your router. The host will come up at IP address of 192.168.0.1 (default windows internet connection share) and a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0. I always use static IPs and set the clients at 192.168.0.10…11…12…13…etc. Same subnet mask.
Your wireless router will work fine but you’ll have make sure to do a few things in order to be sure you are not using the router functions and only using the router as a wireless access point.

It’s not difficult but it’s farily involved so if you want you can email me at inw@plix.com and I’ll email back my phone number and you can call me and I’ll walk you through it. Should take about 30 minutes.

Disclaimer…I’m assuming that your problem is because your router is not set up correctly. It could be one or more other things tho.

It probably doesn’t work due to the time delay between you -> satelite -> base station. Some (most?) satellite network companies use software that does stuff like fake ACKs to try to prevent delays when establishing connections, transferring files, etc.

I don’t have a pdf viewer installed right now, which prevents me from searching for some really good stuff, but it looks like the last guy in this other board thread has some half decent links to try to explain things.

The suggestions of sticking an actual PC in between the modem and the router, or using the PC as a router should work.