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jepalmer
Explorer
Mar 04, 2015

Need opinion(s) on satellite internet

I'll be spending the summer in SW Montana (yea!) without cell service (boo!).

I need internet. If TV can be bundled with it, great. Right now I have land line verizon FIOS, but after the summer I will be converting to a satellite system for the house,e.g. DirecTV, if that makes a difference.

Looking for suggestions on
(1) Provider
(2) Antenna - automatic is nice, but is it worth 2x price?
(3) If I go with a tripod antenna vs a 'tailgater' what is the difference in storage space? Can the tripod antenna be relatively easily broken down for storage? I know there is a difference in set up time, but that is immaterial to me. Comfortable shooting azimuth/direction, etc.
(4) How far from the RV can the antenna be and still transmit signal (don't think this will be a problem, but curious)
(5) What did I forget to ask?

Don't need on-the-go service

Thanks!
  • 2112's avatar
    2112
    Explorer II
    I was on Wildblue through Dish Net for years. My modem finally failed so I was upgraded to the new system. There wasn't a spot beam available through Wildblue so they moved me to Exede.net. The difference is night and day. The new system (Gen4?) is ssssoooo much faster and stable.

    As mentioned before, sat internet isn't something you can easily move from location to location.

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