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Greetings to all... Presently, I live in Palau a small island country 500 miles east of the Philippines and 800 miles south-southwest of Guam. Been here for 10 years (not crying-it is PARADISE)... However, our internet service is in its early stages and although it has gone down in price, it still costs 300.00 and 400.00 (USD) a month for a DSL line and 100.00 for unlimited dial-up (I am presently on this program) which normally runs at 49333 to 51000 bps (THIS I AM CRYING ABOUT). Enough for the sob story.

What I need help with (HELP!), being totally ignorant about new internet connectivity matters (especially with wi-fi) is (1) setting up a wireless network at the office with the DSL line then (2) be able to dial-up into it from my laptop at home. I realize that the dial-up connection will probably be slow and sluggish, however, it can't be any slower than what I have now. Would also like names of hardware which I might need.

I am running (2) IMAC G5's at the office and last month purchased a MacBookPro on my last outing. All are equipped with Air Cards.

We have no networking, wi-fi experts, or computer gurus here, just us lame ducks putting up with the government owned communications system that has no competition and the most horrible service ethics.

Thank you.

gitanopalau

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Member Avatar for DimaYasny

if you're trying to dial to your server at work, I suppose we'd all like to know what kind of server you use there

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that's just it, i have none. all i have are two computers there. the dsl line will go in a there and i am trying to figure out what would be the best way to go and what i would need to set it up with the least amount of problems.

by the way, thanks for the response.

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and the two computers in the office are networked?
you'll probably need a modem in one of them, and some kind of ancient dial-in server emulator

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normally runs at 49333 to 51000 bps (THIS I AM CRYING ABOUT).

Don't expect to get any faster than this on ordinary dialup - it won't happen. In fact, that's pretty good for a 56k modem - My old dialup connection (in the UK on a good telecoms infrastructure) used to connect at 44000 bps most days.

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