satellite

If you never buy PPV then there is no need for a phone line.

Since we're always in the RV, we also don't have a phone line. However, we CAN order pay-per-view on the Internet. We use DirecTV. We visit their site, order our PPV, and it's instantly approved for viewing. No extra charges. If we call their toll-free number to order PPV, there is a charge. Bottom line - we can get PPV without a phone line.

When RVing with a satellite system and receiving a signal weather you're in the Arizona Desert or a large RV park on a Florida beach they know where you are and it's best to remember that while talking to them on the phone or they might just tell you the site number your antenna is sitting on.

I find this hard to believe. Unless I'm mistaken, your TV satellite dish isn't a transmitter.

Your dish is not a transmitter unless you have a internet system on it. They cannot tell where you are. Heck I am in Washington and three or four times have tried to get them to put my home system in Washington. As of yet it hasnt happend and my internet account with them still shows us in Utah. They cannot figure out how to put us in Washington let alone find us or know we are in Washington. Matter of fact I had to give them the zip code cuz they could not find the city or county on their system.

Hi all,
I've been absent from the forum for about a year now and just now getting back on board. I spent several hours reviewing recent posts but have not seen any discussion of Internet via satellite. I checked into HughesNet and when they told me I would have to carry around a 4' dish I lost interest. Is that really the only option? We are not hooked on TV and are very willing to take whatever flows across the air for free, but we are sending a small fortune to Verizon for minimal service from their air cards.

So who's gonna edjecate me?

Glenn

We do it the easy way...Take a receiver from the house, enjoy direct tv and loc's when availible. Pull in a place with cable, hook it up and get the loc's, same programs. No cable, no problem, crank up the TT ant and get the loc on it. bought a switch at radio shack, Sat plugs in, cable plugs in and crank up TT ant plugs in. just switch to what ever i'm using. Get to enjoy all of the above whenever I want with a simple "move the switch"

I checked into HughesNet and when they told me I would have to carry around a 4' dish I lost interest. Is that really the only option? We are not hooked on TV and are very willing to take whatever flows across the air for free, but we are sending a small fortune to Verizon for minimal service from their air cards.

So who's gonna edjecate me?

Glenn

If you don't want to use an air card from a cell phone vendor, such as Verizon, then you only have a couple of choices to stay online while traveling. Go with Hughes Net and the big dish or rely on WiFi where you can get it. I run with a couple of folks who have the big dish. As long as I can park close to them I can use their connection just like WiFi. The dish will cost about $5000. I did have a chance to have one installed at a rally this past summer for $3995 but passed. Now I wish I'd bit the bullet and bought the thing. Besides, with the big dish you get that neat blue light so you can always find your coach in the RV park.

The big dish from hughes is not really 4', but it is larger than a tv dish. I use a tripod system that I built from used materials, got the system from Hughes, have approximately 600.00 dollars invested. Have been using the system for 5 years now, take it with me whereever. Works well, online virtually all the time. There are forums that will aid you with everything you need to know about a portable system. The Big coaches with the installed systems and automatic dishes are expensive, but they also work well. It is Satellite, not DSL, so there is some disadvantages to that, but overall a very workable and reliable way of accessing the internet, regardless of where your at.

dbentley