Directv question

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I just returned from a three week, 6231 mile trip from Massachusetts to Arizona with stops in Texas and New Mexico.

I used DirecTVNOW and Curiosity STREAM on the entire trip. Using a Verizon HotSpot, T-Mobile HotSpot or campground / McDonalds / Panera Bread / Etc WiFi

I do not have unlimited service for Verizon so used it very little. The T-Mobile, $30 a month unlimited streaming plan worked great everywhere except at Hidden Valley Ranch RV park in a deep valley in New Mexico with poor Verizon service and no T-Mobile or Sprint service. But the RV park had amazing WiFi for $2 a day.

At rest stops and truck stops, I used my ALFA WiFi booster system to use the free WiFi. A few times I was in a truck stop with a McDonalds across the street and the WiFi booster pulled in their WiFi like I was sitting inside the restaurant. Very pleased!

I was never in a situation where I could not access DirecTV NOW or Curiosity STREAM over the internet.

This past week I bought and activated an AT&T Mobley OBD hotspot with unlimited data for $20 a month.

Now I have access to all four major carriers and WiFi at will. I also have a WeBoost that has proven very effective at times.

Verizon...My company supplies $$?
AT&T....22g High Speed, (may be throttled after but no one I've heard has been throttled with usagr up to 200g)Unlimited DirecTV streaming as AT&T owns DTV now....Used it on a trip from Massachusetts to NJ with spectacular performance.$20 a month
SPRINT...6G $30 a month (Works almost no where. Terrible service once you get off the highway or outside a large city.
T-Mobile...$30 Unlimited Streaming. So far, VERY good performance everywhere I've been except in the mountains of New Mexico.

I predict that within month, the sight of satellite dishes on RVs will go the way of the dinosaur. I can not see the need, expense and deployment making any sense as the cost for unlimited services continue to crash and the network gets better and better....

Aridon wrote:
Sure, so long as the receiver isn't dependent on another box to work such as the genie clients. If you have something like a Genie at home and a hr24 on the road they will work so long as they are attached to a dish pointed at the right bird

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Sure, so long as the receiver isn't dependent on another box to work such as the genie clients. If you have something like a Genie at home and a hr24 on the road they will work so long as they are attached to a dish pointed at the right bird.

The receivers and dish are completely dumb. Other than the authorization they get form the satellite there is nothing tying them to your home setup. You can pick them up, move them to another house with Directv and they will work just fine. This has always been an issue satellite providers had to deal with and is called account stacking.

You must have two cards that are active through DirectTV.

I did this for a couple of years with bringing a spare SAT RECEIVER and a portable dish from the house system. This was only for the standard SAT TV stuff...

Worked out great for us doing this and is not doing anything illegal... DIRECTV doesnt care where you are located. The only thing we missed was out assigned local station TV signal... They all go away when you physically leave your local ZIP CODE area...

I did run into problems with my old equipment back then where when I pulled the power from them for a somewhat long period of time they would lose their setting and I would have to get ahold of DIRECTV and get it turned back on again. SO I you have to have your account number and CARD number to get it turned back on. Later on I found out you could log into DIRECTV on the internet and have the SAT RCVR turned on again... I always taped all of this needed info in an envelope to the top the SAT RCVR.

I don't think any of this will work with the DIRECTV HDTV setup where you need to use more than one SAT SIGNAL at the same time...

It worked great for us with a two head portable SAT DISH. I ran RG cable from each of the SAT DISH two head ports with one going to a SAT RCVR in the living room TV and the other one going to a SAT RCVR in the bedroom. This allowed each RV TV set to watch any of the channels separately...

When the NATL BROADCAST went to digital high Def TV in 2009 I think it was we then stopped bringing along the SAT RCVR and DISH. The HDTV from the local towns were much better to watch. Using the RV BATWING antenna picks up many of the local towns transmitting the HDTV digital signals these day and it is all free to the public to use.

Roy Ken

Yea, maybe. What receiver do you uave at home?

With the correct receivers.

Yes. Need a dish, cabe and a sat box.