View Full Version : PC/modem question  04-10-2012, 11:47 PM So I
am helping some folks to buy a laptop for a guy in Guatemala.
Communications with him are a bit sketchy, but I have figured
out that they don't really have phone lines and so they use a
modem that works off of a cellular network or maybe satellite.
Tigo is probably the most common company, and you can buy a Tigo
usb modem there pretty inexpensively. The problem is, on the
Tigo website it doesn't seem to indicate whether it will work
with Windows 7. And it seems hard to find new laptops that do
not come with Windows 7. I would get him a Mac if he lived at
all close to me and/or spoke English so I could help him as
needed (and also if they had a little more money to spend). I
have emailed Tigo to ask them about this specifically, but
haven't gotten a response yet.  Does anyone have any helpful
information?   04-11-2012, 12:28 AM Never mind. Found another
site, in Spanish, that led me to a manufacturer's site, and they
do seem to work with Windows