EA3500 with WildBlue Satellite Internet

I used the CD to set up my new EA3500 with my Wild Blue Satellite internet modem.
An IPhone or IPad can connect and work like a charm, remaining rock solid at all times.  Windows 7 on the other hand, will work and then lose connection to the internet.  The PC appears to remain connected to the EA3500, but the connection between the EA3500 and modem appear to be lost.  I can click on the bar Icon at the bottom and it shows everything to be fine.  I click on disconnect and then wait a few seconds and click on connect again and it works for a few minutes before having to do it again.
When I look at the router properties the CD set it up for DHCP. 
Thanks for any help you can offer.
Larry

Hi, I'm not sure if this may be of interest, but I am using a Satellite connection which is 512 Up and Down, (V-Sat) Provided by MTN in the states. There are several Macs using this here and we are having mixed results. (We are on a large yacht). Some of us are able to connect perfectly well with other I chat users elsewhere in he world, and some not. It seems to be more of an IP problem that a bandwidth problem. I will point out though that our bandwidth is totally dedicated and there is no contention so we get the full 512 Kb each way.
For those of us who do get it to work, the I chat with video full screen works perfectly well. The problems some of us are having seem to be related to the IP set up at the other user's end. I have contacted Apple about it and they say it is not an Apple problem but an ISP problem, which does seem to be the case.
The point is though, that 512 Kbs is more than enough to use I chat successfully even in full screen mode, but that is with dedicated bandwidth, what it is like on a contended line with that amount of bandwidth, I would not be able to comment on. Do you know what your contention ratio is on your Wildblue system ? It could well just be that you are not getting enough of the 1.5 Mb/s bandwidth as you are sharing it with too many other users.
I would recommend dedicated bandwidth, but it is very expensive, we are currently paying circa, $12,000 USD per month for this 512 Kb/s UP/DOWN service. I don't know what your circumstances are whether you are working for a company who is paying for the service, but you can without a doubt get great results with this level of bandwidth using I Chat AV . I am running Leopard 10.5.1
Hope this is of some help to you.

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