Dish for my RV

Guess I'm missing something - If you have the Tailgator and have dish in your home you can get another 211K for about $50 on amazon pay another $7 bucks a month month and use it whenever you want. We don't even have them turn it off by the month.

I just posted a rant last week about my experience with Dish customer service, simply trying to get them to provide the service they contracted to at "DishForMyRV". Here are my impressions:

I was VERY satisfied with the programming service. More variety than cable and more sports-oriented. SD signal was just OK.

Yes, it is pricey, and if you know you're going to use the service you should completely bypass dishformyrv and sign up for a 2-year commitment with a 211k and a tailgater.

Regarding the Pay-as-You-Go, Dish seems determined to chip away at the promises made at dishformyrv. When you go to suspend your service you will find them trying to sell you a $5/month fee for doing what they promised to do for free--suspend your service at no cost. So now if you refuse the fee they go out of their way to treat you like a deadbeat and will completely close the account. Yes, you can start again at anytime and at no additional cost, but they really want that $5 fee.

Regarding not paying your bill, I tried this as a test, but mistakenly only did it for a few days. You have to go at least 30 days (one full billing cycle) or they will treat it as a late payment and simply restart the service on a short month. Again, this was not what we were told at dishformyrv, but good luck arguing with them. I LOVE to argue, and they wore me out.

ALSO: In my first year and a half of service, I had the service on all the time. Over the course of that I basically doubled my bill, adding more sports and HBO/SHO. Now that those creeps at Dish got me thinking about the costs, it's likely that I'll only have the service on less than 6 months a year--that's a solid five or six hundred bucks saved, at the super premium dishformyrv rates.

We are at the end of our third year FULLTIMING.
We have used the Winguard traveller and the Caryout.
Both work fine, like the traveler for the ease of setup.
Just call dishnetwork when we arrive ar a new site and they change th service
to the local Chanel's.

Dish offers a month to month service where you pay for thirty days at a time. At the end of thirty days you can make another payment to continue service or let it laps and restart again when you plan to use your RV. There are no fees for restarting your service. Just a phone call. Hope this makes sense. It's how I do it.

I signed a two year contract but I fulltime and plan to for at least two years, so it made the most sense to me. If I was only part-timing, I would probably use a pay by the month plan. Then I could turn it on and off as I used it.