Anyone have experience aiming an Exede dish?
So I've just spent several hours searching for the "perfect" Internet solution for my RV, and have come to the conclusion that it doesn't exist. So now begins my search for a "crappy, but I can get b...
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Bill.Satellite wrote:
The service is spot beamed so a move from one location to another requires a complete change to your account settings and only an installer can get that done as well.
I was almost believing you until you threw this in.
Or are you really telling me that the country is covered by many millions of tiny spot beams each covering only a few square feet of ground area? If I pick up and move my RV 100 yards down to the other end of the park, you want me to believe that I'm under a different beam? Nope, not buying it.
I've looked at Exede's spot beam map. Any moving around I'll be doing in the next several years will all be well within the same beam. I'm not talking about Oregon to Florida location change, I'm talking about a 20 mile radius, max. I'm looking forward to the day when I'm travelling longer distances more often, but for now my job has me pretty well anchored to this area.
I'm perfectly willing to believe that they've built in artificial roadblocks to prevent end-users from aiming the dish, but the spot beam is a non-issue.
Special tools? Non-issue. No satellite installer I've ever met is wealthy. If they can afford the tools, so can I.
Needing to be in contact with the NOC? If that is indeed the case, then it's simply because the system was designed specifically to be user-hostile.
