TV and Internet

[Grnrubicon]

I have two homes plus my MH. If you travel with a satellite dish for your MH, does this also work at your residence? I am a little of tired of paying for cable and internet at three locations. $$$$$$$

[Dale_Traveling]

I'm the opposite of most. Have Dish for the coach but when home and the service is active (we're month to month on the subscription) the receiver moves into the house and I'll use the antenna on the coach since where the coach is parked is about the only place in the yard with a clear line of sight to the satellites. Subscription cost about $50 a month for the package I selected.

While on the road we use our cell service for most of our internet usage. We don't stream entertainment from the phones to save on bandwidth usage. CG internet can be a bit slow but works well for general use but I don't normally depend on it for streaming purposes. Between the Dish subscription and DVDs we don't really need to stream to the coach TV.

[fortytwo]

Dish does offer a Satellite program for RV's - month to month pay as you go. The older tailgater automatic dishes were only SD, but there is a new one that is HD and also enables two TV's to access different channels AS LONG AS BOTH CHANNELS ARE ON THE SAME SATELLITE.

[eadeal55]

Just ditched DirecTV when they wanted $90 a month for basic service. Since DW runs a business in the house and has a Charter/Spectrum business account for cable, internet and telephone, we just had DTV in the coach for the past 12 years and was turning it off for 3 months every year, mid December to mid March.

So, we went out and bought a 32in Vizio smart TV, and replaced the older 32in Samsung from our 2008 TV upgrade. Then updated my Verizon wireless/cell service to unlimited, and this past week-end downloaded and watched a movie off Netflix, using about 4GB of data on the MiFi "puck" for a 1.5 hr movie at 1080P.

[crasster]

Absolutely. What we have started doing is just sticking to online watchables. There is so much online and now unlimited data.

[RJL]

Yep. Thats why we have Directv. Have an in motion on the motor home and Direct at the house. We pay a nominal monthly charge for the extra receiver in the MH. Works great for us.

[pianotuna]

Hi,

T-Mobile has unlimited data plans. You can tether at full speed up to 22 gigs, then they may optimize the connections.

I can successfully watch Netflix on the limited bandwidth of "post" 22 gigs.

[Teacher_s_Pet]

At one there was an RV waiver (we had one years ago) with Dish Network for distant network feeds (ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, CW, PBS). But that all left when Dish lost a court battle over those feeds. Owner of DirecTV (according to rumors) at the time also owned Fox and put a stop to Dish re-broadcast as a marketing ploy. So Dish advised customers to get the national feeds from All-America Direct a vendor of satellite programming (we bought service from them also) and eventually Dish came out with the access to local channels via satellites, through "spot beams" which let you usually see channels from market areas in a 150-200 mile radius. When I move into a new service area I contact Dish via their CHAT service and get my locals moved. I really wish we still had the east and west coast feeds (DNS) as we travel, since we could watch shows or record in the western US several hours earlier.

[Bill_Satellite]

There is not really such a thing as an RV only account. You can use any receiver in any location without restriction as long as you own/rent the properties/vehicles where the hardware is being used.
The only thing that is slightly "RV account" related is that some DirecTV customers sign up for the DNS services (Distant Network Services) but you stay at one location for an extended period you can also call and have your service location changed.
What does not work is trying to have receivers working at 2/3 different locations simultaneously so as long as you will only need service at the location where you are physically located then there are really no issues.

[RoyB]

I used to do this on a regular basis a few years back... Just bring alomh a couple of SAT RCVRS from the house and feed them with a dual output SAT DISH. Use two RG cables from the dish to feed each SAT RCVR.

My rpoblem sometimes was when I unplugged my home SAT RCVR it would reset itself and then when I hooked back up on the road some where I had to contact DIRECTV and get them to turn things back on again. First time it happened i din't have my account numbers with me haha.... Much easier to do if you have all your numbers with you.

You are not doing any thing illegal doing this... DIRECTV doesn't care where you use you TV's...

Like the other post said once you get outside your ZUP CODE area your local TV channels will not work. Then you have change your user address to make that work. Sometimes DIRECTV got upset if I did this too much. i just started watching the local stations in HDTV mode from the local towns using my crankup BATWING antenna. Eventually I just dropped all of the SAT TV stuff and now only use the local HDTV being transmitted from the local towns. This is all in high def mode and looked much better than the standard TV signals I was getting from DIRECTV.

It may have all changed now with the more modern things the SAT companies have going... I get all of the HDTV I want to watch picking them up from the local towns... And it's free to the public haha..

Roy Ken

[wa8yxm]

If you have an RV account and use and use a TRIPOD dish, then you can put your "Spare" receivers in the house and simply hook up and AIM when you get home, Same as you Hook up and AIM on a campsite.. If you use a automatic rooftop antenna on the RV, you should have a dish and tripod for those incidences when the roof mount does not have a clean view of the sky. (Parked under Evil Signal Eating Tree) 🙂

Finally, you can also (if parked close enough) simply run a cable from said Automatic antenna to the house.. Works best in all cases with DISH type not domes or portable "cube" type.

[RoyF]

Not all receivers work with all satellite dishes. For example, Tailgater (for Dish Network) uses a Dish 411 or 211 receiver.

We have a Dish 211v receiver hooked to a small TV in the kitchen. We take that receiver with us when traveling in the fifth-wheel.

[Bill_Satellite]

Yes for TV but not for internet. Satellite TV will come from DirecTV or Dish but internet will need to come via some cellular provider. This will NOT be anything close to what you now have assuming your internet is provided by your cable provider. That doesn't mean it will be bad but it will be slower and it will be location dependent. It will also likely be more expensive for less with data caps that you don't have to deal with from a cable provider.
You can setup either satellite service at both houses with antennas permanently mounted on the (assuming you have a good clear view of the Southern sky) and then you will need another antenna for the RV, either self pointing or manual and either roof mounted or portable. What services you want will make a difference in which antenna is required to meet your needs. You will then be able to move the receiver from home 1 to RV to Home 2 and back again as necessary.

[donn0128]

The only thing that might not work with sat TV is local channels. That can be fixed with a simple phone call.
As for internet, the easiest is cell based wifi. Not the cheapest, but definitely the easiest to have available all the time. Verizon followed by ATT offer the best overall coverage

[Dutch_12078]

Our motorhome is our home, but we also have a small cottage in upstate NY near our kids that we visit from time to time. We have Dish satellite TV service with two Hopper w/Sling multi-tuner DVR receivers, one we keep in the motorhome and one we leave in the cottage, both on the same account. The cottage has its own permanent dish, and we carry a portable dish in the motorhome. With the two Sling equipped receivers, we can record programming at the cottage that we would miss while underway, and watch it later in the motorhome using the Dish "Dish Anywhere" app. When we visit the cottage, we just hook up to the dish there, and both Hoppers can see everything recorded on either one. The only downside is that when we change our service address while on the road to get the current locals, the cottage Hopper looses its satellite locals. The cottage does get the locals over the air though, so it's not really a problem.