JustUs2
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We want to add sat tv over the winter and was wondering if you can get it with internet access as well. Anyone have any feedback?
Sat TV & Internet - Available?
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No. It doesn't work like your cable.
Alex F
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It would also be very expensive.
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Yes, but....
It is hugely expensive
The data rate speed is equivalent to dial up in a lot of cases
You are better to get
a Verizon 3G broadband card or
a Cradlepoint router with a Verizon 4G cap if you want to use multiple machines on the Internet.
http://3gstore.com/site/advanced_search_result.html?keyword=arcmbr1400
The original question was asking if you could get Sat TV with Internet. What you posted is not Sat TV with Internet. It's like someone asking if they can get a Ford Truck with a Corvette engine and you say "yes" and post a link to the Corvette site. I guess you missed the "Ford Truck" part of the question. Another example is when I say to my kids "Eat your dinner and you can have ice cream" and all they hear is "ICE CREAM?!? I WANT ICE CREAM!!!". What you posted is a separate antenna dedicated to data communications. It's expensive and slow as Rick said. I had a big investment in Ka-Star who later became Wild Blue Communications that has these birds in the air. I lost my ass... and all my investment.
Your KVH type of antennas are one-way communication devices... not two-way... Your cable in your house is two-way... two-way sat dishes are expensive and slow... and the satellites they point to in the sky are not the TV satellites.
I suggest, as Rick said, a Cradlepoint type of router and then when you get your Sat TV, you can plug the Sat boxes in the Internet. It's interesting/ironic that the DirecTV sat boxes need Internet connectivity (i.e. from a cable company or phone company) to provide all the features they have on them now.
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cod
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I have a "hot spot" on my phone that allows of to 5 devices to receive an Internet connection. Works very well in most places, especially if the area is 4G.
