Mike Nicholson asked:


Satellite internet service is the only answer for those 30 million people who want to go wireless and are not able to receive high speed internet through cable broadband or DSL. There are lots of benefits of going wireless when you are using an internet service. It is much simpler to network your office as well as home computers with this wireless system. The key advantage of wireless connection is that you are no longer associated to limited route with a cable. You can easily move your computer or laptop anywhere around your office or home within the range of wireless router.

The other key advantage of wireless satellite internet is that multiple computer can access the internet at the same time. Lots of people who work from home or run home-based business prefer wireless access. The thing that you need to do is to subscribe to a satellite internet service. Usually, these services are broadband so they are going to work with wireless networking equipment that has been used to create wireless networks for land based broadband internet services. The top three choices for wireless internet service are HughesNet, StarBand and WildBlue.

While waiting for your satellite internet to be installed, you can buy all the wireless equipment that you need. If your system doesn’t have internal wireless networking card then you need to purchase one that does or you can buy a wireless network adapter. Next, you need a wireless router.

Once your satellite internet system has been set up, you are ready to connect your wireless network. To begin with, connect your satellite internet modem with router. Router will send signals to your computer or laptop via infrared signals, then you need to configure your router by following the instruction that your router give. If you have wireless network adapter, you need to plug this into a USB port with your system. As you complete this process, you are free to start surfing the Internet with no wires attached.

There are lots of wireless internet providers offering wireless internet in New York, Cosmosatellite is one of them. Cosmosatellite specializes in providing wireless satellite internet for home as well as office throughout North America region. If you too are looking to buy wireless internet, consider Cosmosatellite for your internet requirement.

Michael Lemm asked:


Let’s talk turkey for a moment (or Vonage if you want to throw a pun into the discussion ha ha.).

The age old question (OK recent topic of concern) among VoIP users and those whose bandwidth is used to make those calls is……how much bandwidth does VoIP use?

Well Virginia….that’s an interesting question. Any discussion may illicit potentially tense reactions. So let’s try and shed some light on the subject….in a practical fashion.

Bandwidth isn’t measured like it was a garden hose of water. ON and OFF, measuring it’s usage. It can be read that way, but it isn’t actually looked at that way. Not by most providers anyway. (Unless of course they are trying to rationalize prices to the FCC).

For instance; as a business you may have numerous DS3/OC circuits that you pay for each month. A DS3 for instance rounded off is 45mb of pipe. Now, you pay the same thing for that circuit each month whether you put 1 voip line on it, or an entire network with hundreds of computers and such.

Same with your VoIP. You pay the same amount on an unlimited calling plan whether you make 1 phone call or 1000 calls. To try and measure actual Mega or Terabytes of data as a means of determining cost is pure rationalization.

Ma’Bell, Level 3, or any other backbone has “X” amount of bandwidth that they can use simultaneously. Some of that bandwidth is dedicated, some isn’t. Some are using ATM so it can better utilize the bandwidth among inconsistant users, while there are also other flavors like Frame and TDM.

The point is, while some providers and backbone and backhaul carriers might charge a metered circuit, most sell fixed amounts of bandwidth. That’s why your ISP has little statements like; “UP TO 1.5MB” or “Speeds may Vary”. Just because voip has started making a presence, doesn’t mean that ISP’s have had to automatically start buying more bandwidth from the backbone.

If they tell you that, they are full of ……it. When DSL and cable broadband are sold to you, the max bandwidth that you are buying is formulated into their pricing and bandwidth demands.

For what it’s worth, more bandwidth was probably used, until recently, on streaming audio/video, torrent, MP3 downloads, distributed computing, etc. If your service provider gets too saturated, they will offer more bandwidth at a higher price, which is what they will use to buy from the backbone/backhaul providers.

However when you have 10 people that are using the bandwidth (for VoIP) that would supply 50-100 average (internet using) joes….. not only is that causing more congestion at that junction box, but you are also causing the provider to buy more bandwidth.

You know as well as I do they will not make another tier! They will just raise the prices on the ones already established. How many average people max out their connections on a regular basis?

Anyway, the VoIP companies for the longest time have been getting pretty much a free ride on the PSTN and the ISPs…. plus were not subject to the same taxes MaBell is. So…. you can see why there is so much tension about bandwidth?

If you’d like help find just the right VoIP based solution….covering all the bandwidth in’s and out’s…..I suggest you take advantage of the free consulting services offered at http://Business-VoIP-Solution.com.