Satellite TV/Internet - 1 Subscription/2 Locations?

[pappy19]

At least with the Dish Network, you can have up to 4 receivers in different locations and still be setup for the "primary" location. We have 2 homes plus an RV with a dish setup at all 3 locations. Each location has it's own receiver. The cost is $5.00 for each additional location per month except for the price of the receiver. They set it up on each location, except for the RV, for free. Each time I move the RV, I just reset the dish to get the signal. I was a Direct TV user, but had problems with them and switched 7 years ago to Dish and haven't had any further problems.

 

[CJ4]

NoMo,

Wow, that's generous of you......I'd like to do that......Not sure when i can get by there....i'll pm you.

 

[CJ4]

Pappy,

I'm not sure about the phone line thing.....I have phone service at both locations so I don't think that's a problem if they require it.....I'd just have to make sure i only have it hooked up at one location at a time.

 

[pappy19]

CJ4-

I know they want you to have all of your receivers hooked to a phone line, but I don't on any of mine. I don't do pay-per-view, so it doesn't matter. Main thing is that you use one phone line as your main number for the main account, the rest is just a matter of how many receivers and where.

 

[IllMarty1]

In the same boat. Signed up with DirecTV last spring when summer home was finished. They installed dish and we lease 4 receivers( actually first one is free). Bought new dish and installed it at summer home. Leave one receiver there fulltime and move another back and forth. $77 for 2 places with all HBO channels.

We kept cable internet at home, but it was $70 by itself. Land phone line was $78 with long distance. Comcast packaged Cable internet, VOIP phone, and basic cable for $99. When I balked over phone, they made it $85 for 6 months, $99 amonth thereafter.

Cell service at summer place will not support internet, and service is spotty at best in my location.

I refuse to put hard wired phone in for dial up internet. Thought about HughesNet but have not read too many complimentry things about them yet, and seems to be my only option at this time.

Let us know how and what you decide as I will be interested in the outcome.

Marty

 

[cjtinkle]

We fulltime in our RV, and have had Direcway & Directv on one dish for 5 years. We originally had this setup on our farm, but when we sold the farm, we simply purchased a tripod kit for the dish, and have been using it that way ever since. It's great, because we can go anywhere and always have internet access and tv.

You don't need a phone line. We've had nothing but cell phones for the last 5 years.

For the original poster, just pick up another dish and leave it at the 2nd locaton. Bring your reciever and you're golden.

Since Direcway became Hughesnet, I don't believe you can still buy a dual lnb for tv and internet, but you might pick up one used.

 

[gemini5362]

If I were in your position, here's what I'd do...

At the main (city) house:
Drop the cable TV (or reduce subscription to lowest tier) and keep cable Internet service. Then I would subscribe to DirecTV or Dish for television service and have them install the equipment for free.

At the lake/farm house:
I'd buy a second dish (just the dish) and install it permanently. Then I'd bring my receivers from the city house when migrating. For Internet connectivity, I'd use a low cost dial-up service.

Satellite Internet service is the absolute last resort for those who have no option other than dial-up. And even if that is the case at your lake house, I wouldn't let that cause me to lose cable Internet service at the primary residence. I suffered on satellite for two years and you really don't want that headache if you can avoid it.

Either way, forget about the single dish solution. Back when TV only came in via 1-2 birds, adding Internet onto the dish wasn't nearly as tough. But today, getting a single dish to acquire signals from 3, 4 or 5 TV satellites plus the Internet satellite is nearly impossible.

actually no mo it is not that hard. I had sattelite internet for several years. I dont reccomend it unless you have no other choice. The speeds are not nearly as fast as DSL and you have a 1/2 second delay time from the time you hit the enter key until you see the reply. When you are downloading that is not a big deal because once it starts you are streaming your download but if you have to have access where you are looking at another computer say your office one for instance it is a bit awkward. I could have gotten direct tv sattelites on that dish if I had wanted but I had dishnetwork for tv. I recently got a new dishnetwork system I get three sattelites on it and they actually went to a smaller dish than I had before. I get perfect reception on all three sattelites.