How does a satellite account get verified?
Not exactly keeping me awake at night, but I am curious about how a satellite provider (DISH, Sirius, etc.) validates that a legal device is connecting and determines what services are available to th...
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Bill.Satellite wrote:
No, no signal is broadcast to the satellite from the receiver. I am not sure what you mean by a legal device. The antenna certainly doesn't care and the satellite just broadcasts a signal so anything that can receive that signal will receive it. The signal is scrambled and the receiver decodes it so you can view it. The "card" that DirecTV use and the internal card that Dish uses is what tells the receiver that you are allowed to view the programming. Years ago there were a lot of folks using illegal cards and computer programs to defeat this options but that's all pretty much gone these days.
Maybe you could explain what illegal device you are hoping to use.
Let me clarify:
I understand that devices have unique IDs. The radio ID for Sirius, the card that is installed in a satellite TV receiver. Somehow those IDs are detected by the Provider and used to determine that your account is valid and also what channels you have associated with it.
This is accomplished without any parallel connection through the Internet or a phone line. So how is it validated if there is no transmission from the device to the satellites?
