Portable DISH in Canada

Yup. We use dish 12 months/yr with 6 months in Canada. I will say that the further north you go, the worse the reception. Works pretty good in Calgary but not so great in Edmonton for example.
PS. Luckyd is correct....you will not get locals.

We used our Dish tailgater all across Canada. We got our monthly bill by email and were able to pay it. The only problem we had was not being able to change locations for local programming. We crossed the border back into Canada and got local programming out of Seattle, that being the closest city to where we crossed. We could not change again until we crossed back into the USA in Maine.
Dish will only answer a USA phone number and you are NOT legally allowed to use Dish in Canada.

luckyd wrote:
We used our Dish tailgater all across Canada. We got our monthly bill by email and were able to pay it. The only problem we had was not being able to change locations for local programming. We crossed the border back into Canada and got local programming out of Seattle, that being the closest city to where we crossed. We could not change again until we crossed back into the USA in Maine.
Dish will only answer a USA phone number and you are NOT legally allowed to use Dish in Canada.

Actually it's not a legal issue (at least here in Canada), it's an issue with the American and Canadian networks concerned about rebroadcasting their programs in other countries (and missing ad revenue). I checked with our CRTC (the Canadian equivalent of the American broadcast regulator) and they stated that they have no issues with us receiving Canadian programs elsewhere.

almcc wrote:

luckyd wrote:

Actually it's not a legal issue (at least here in Canada), it's an issue with the American and Canadian networks concerned about rebroadcasting their programs in other countries (and missing ad revenue). I checked with our CRTC (the Canadian equivalent of the American broadcast regulator) and they stated that they have no issues with us receiving Canadian programs elsewhere.

A few years ago I tried to stream the 2 part Don Cherry movie. Since I'm a yank, the CBC website said that since I had a foreign web address, I couldn't download it. All was not lost, since I live in Seattle, our cable has the Vancouver CBC station so eventually it came on.

almcc wrote:

luckyd wrote:
We used our Dish tailgater all across Canada. We got our monthly bill by email and were able to pay it. The only problem we had was not being able to change locations for local programming. We crossed the border back into Canada and got local programming out of Seattle, that being the closest city to where we crossed. We could not change again until we crossed back into the USA in Maine.


Dish will only answer a USA phone number and you are NOT legally allowed to use Dish in Canada.

Actually it's not a legal issue (at least here in Canada), it's an issue with the American and Canadian networks concerned about rebroadcasting their programs in other countries (and missing ad revenue). I checked with our CRTC (the Canadian equivalent of the American broadcast regulator) and they stated that they have no issues with us receiving Canadian programs elsewhere.

The CRTC doesn't give a flip what happens outside their jurisdiction. They only get involved if you try to use a foreign market device to access foreign broadcasts, while in Canada. The companies on both sides of the border know that this happens, but it's not in their interests to pursue the few cases that occur every year,for a short time.

seaeagle2 wrote:

almcc wrote:

luckyd wrote:

Actually it's not a legal issue (at least here in Canada), it's an issue with the American and Canadian networks concerned about rebroadcasting their programs in other countries (and missing ad revenue). I checked with our CRTC (the Canadian equivalent of the American broadcast regulator) and they stated that they have no issues with us receiving Canadian programs elsewhere.

A few years ago I tried to stream the 2 part Don Cherry movie. Since I'm a yank, the CBC website said that since I had a foreign web address, I couldn't download it. All was not lost, since I live in Seattle, our cable has the Vancouver CBC station so eventually it came on.

Yup, seems you can't stream anything from CBC if you are using a US IP. We tried streaming some of the Canada Rugby Sevens on CBC a few weeks ago from So Cal and couldn't.

If you get a VPN app you can stream from Canada assuming that the CBC doesn't know the particular VPN.