Sat (Satellite Technology) HOWTO

1. Introduction

1.1 Introduction

This document wants to explain something about Satellite technology, how it works, what do you need, configuration and how to sharing it between several clients. Satellite connections are very different from terrestrial ones, they require more attention to setup and also some more care to maintain them stable (snow or strong rain could prevent you to have a good signal).

Feedback are welcome, don't hesitate to contact us: berto at fatamorgana.com and flosan at hack-it.net.

1.2 Copyright

Copyright (C) 2000,2001 Roberto Arcomano, Florindo Santoro. This document is free; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This document is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but

WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You can get a copy of the GNU GPL here

1.3 Translations

If you want to translate this document you are free, you only have to:

1. Check that another version of it doesn't already exist at your local LDP
2. Maintain all 'Introduction' section (including 'Introduction', 'Copyright', 'Translations', 'Credits').

Warning! You don't have to translate TXT or HTML file, you have to modify LYX file, so that it is possible to convert it all other formats (TXT, HTML, RIFF, etc.): to do that you can use "LyX" application you download from http://www.lyx.org.

No need to ask me to translate! You just have to let me know (if you want) about your translation.

Thank you for your translation!

1.4 Credits

Thanks to Fatamorgana Computers for hardware equipment and experimental opportunity.

Thanks to Linux Documentation Project for publishing and uploading my document in a very quickly fashion.

Thanks to Pierre Guiral and Andrei Boros for their help.