Jeff: Does this mean you used the dish PLUS the Linksys? I found my Linksys modem to be better and a whole lot faster than the dish, which arrived today. The only problem I have in this RV park is retaining the connection. Or getting it in the first place. They have the antenna pointing to the other half of the park - a little detail they neglect to mention in their advertising. The fulltimers in here get wifi. The temps are left to struggle to get a connection. But I digress.
I read the manual that was on the Hawking CD. Nowhere does the manual or setup pamphlet define "station" and "access point," but the software came with "station" by default, and when I changed it to "access point," I seemed to have disabled it. I did turn off Windows wireless network configuration; although, the details for how to do that didn't apply to my system. I never found the tab "Wreless Networks" to disable "use Windows to configure..." I just disabled it in msconfig and rebooted.
With the dish and after a lot of trying, I got a couple flimsy connections to Google and to a RAM webstore, but nothing else, and most of the time those two failed as well. As soon as I uninstalled the dish, replaced the Linksys, reset Windows wireless configuration, I was back to normal, meaning I got consistent service and pretty good speed once my modem was able to make the connection.
The dish probably isn't going back, though. I'm sending this desktop computer to my nephew, so he'll have two computers and probably will want to do a wireless network in the house for his twins. Hope he has a friend or the knowledge to make this work.
--pat