Travelling with a Satellite dish and receiver
If we were to use a portable dish (on a tripod) and a satellite receiver when we are travelling, is there any way that our provider would actually be able to tell that we were using a receiver away fr...
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Bill.Satellite wrote:That's certainly true. HOWEVER, if they were very serious about stopping Canadians receiving outside Canada, they could construct the firmware in the receiver to function only if it is receiving signal from the sat. whose footprint is Canada only. If you're south of the 45th parallel, no workee (unless you're close and have a BIG dish).
There is currently no way for any satellite TV provider to know the location of a receiver unless it is connected to a phone line or internet connection.
Currently we receive signal from the sat. with the big footprint south of the 45th but they're moving a lot of the interesting channels to the other sat.
