Sharing your Satellite Internet Connection

Author: Larry McLemore

Article:
Sharing your Satellite Internet Connection Do you have
Satellite Internet? If so here is something you might not know.
You can share the Internet with others by becoming a hotspot. A
hotspot is a location where wireless or Wi-Fi Internet is
available. You can send your signal to Rver's that are near,
allowing them to connect to the Internet from your signal. You
might ask why would you want to do that? There are several
reasons, maybe you are traveling with another rver that does not
have Internet capability's. Maybe some of the members of your
club only have slow dialup or you might be in an area where only
Satellite is available. Or maybe you would like to make enough
money to pay for your own service by charging others to use your
signal. In order to do this, you will need a 802.11b or 802.11g
wireless router. Prices are great right now and you can get one
for as little as $30 on up to several hundred. As a rule, the
more you pay for a router, the further you can send your signal.
The router fits inline with your modem and is very easy to
connect up. You will probably have to use the product support
and talk to a tech the first time you configure it, then after
that you should have no problem. The person or persons you are
sending the signal to, will need an adapter, see
www.rvinginfo.com. Once they have the adapter, they will be able
to access other free hotspots as well. Here is a list of
www.wififreespot.com You have to keep in mind that with a
network setup like this, you can share files, such as your
documents, but if you do that, anyone connected to the network
will be able to access the files that you are sharing. So the
best thing to do is not to activate any file sharing, but if you
feel you want to any way, then at least require a password so
only those that you want to can access your files. One other
thing, as more people connect using your signal, the signal
speed will slow, however it will still be much faster than
dialup.

About the author:
Larry McLemore is the webmaster for www.rvinginfo.com and
www.rverscomputerhelp.com He has written articles for
www.rversonline.org and is also the online computer advisor for
the same web site.