Wildblue e-mail solution

Russ Steele

Bob writes how he solved a problem with e-mail on the Wildblue satellite.

My satellite installer, Hugh Tower, directed me to a fellow by the name of Paul Castro for advise and help with trying to make the satellite companies compatible with out existing e-mail addresses.  Paul had two pertinent suggestions.  One was that he did not believe that port 25, the default port, was compatible with authorization.  The other thing he mentioned was that Outlook Express had a long time bug that would not allow some setting changes to be effective until after you shut down the program and started it back up again.

Paul suggested that I try switching to port 587 and shutting down Outlook before testing the change. This worked the first time I tried it. We are up and running at home downloading at 500 and uploading at 200.  Using our existing addresses sending and receiving.

Bob, thanks for sharing.

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[jc pryor]

Recently I purchased an installation of wild blue as the best viable broadband option in North San Juan.

I plugged the feed from the satellite into a wireless router and after reseting the router have experienced no problems.

However, I'm contemplating taking the dish down and setting it up at the Burning Man event this week. If I do, I'll post back how it all worked. (hey Russ, howya doin?)