User’s Guide 1-1
Chapter 1: Installation
Introduction
Sky2PC is a broadband digital receiver PCI card or USB box for bringing Internet, data services, and digi-
tal television to your PC via high-speed satellite link. The satellite link is unidirectional: downloads are by
satellite while uploads and data requests use dialup, ISDN, or LAN connection. To install Sky2PC, verify
that your PC meets the system requirements.
For PCI: fit the digital receiver card into an unused PCI slot in your PC. For USB: connect the Sky2PC
USB box to an unused USB port in your PC. When the new device is detected, use the instructions for your
particular Windows operating system to install the driver. Then launch the software installation from the
installation CD.
In most cases, completion of Chapters 1 and 2 of this User’s Guide is all that is needed to establish fully
functional digital TV, Internet, and data service.
System Requirements
• Data service: Celeron 366 MHz or Pentium II 300 MHz or higher, with modem, ISDN, or LAN
uplink previousy installed
• Digital TV viewing: Pentium III 500 MHz or higher
• (PCI) Microsoft Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, or Windows NT 4.0 (Service Pack 6
recommended) operating systems
• (USB) Microsoft Windows 98SE, Windows Me, Windows 2000, or Windows XP operating systems
• (USB) Available USB 1.1 port or USB 2.0 port
Note: B2C2 USB receivers have been tested to comply with OHCI, UHCI, and EHCI USB control-
lers.
• 64 MB of RAM
• 10 MB of hard disk storage for application program and driver
• 2D graphics card (3D graphics recommended) PCI or AGP, resolution of 800x600 in 16-bit color
depth minimum
• Sound Blaster compatible Audio card, for playback of TV channels
Note: Problems with the sound card or its drivers will cause faulty video reception.
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