Comment We've been doing this for 3 or so years already (Score 2, Informative) 192
We're out here in Papua New Guinea (near Australia). We started using Lotus cc:Mail running over the Codan 9002 modems. Then we switched to use a Linux machine as the "router". The "problem" with using PPP is that you can't use Windows on the client side, since there's no way to increase the timeouts, so we're using (C)SLIP. Most of our field workers are less than computer techies, so Linux hasn't been an option on the other end (yet).
It is excruciatingly slow, so only e-mail is realistically usable.
We have an ISP here that we helped set up. They've got the radio modems plugged straight into a Cisco router.
It is excruciatingly slow, so only e-mail is realistically usable.
We have an ISP here that we helped set up. They've got the radio modems plugged straight into a Cisco router.
