Posted 2010-10-02 8:37 AM (#125387) Subject: internet
New User
Posts: 2
Location: Wisconsin
What are your experiences with internet dish access. Some in my area use an internet dedicated dish (not the multifunction TV/internet version)for internet access in their homes. Rather than setting up live TV, I'm wondering if access to news/weather can more easily or universally be gotten through a computer, using a TV/DVD for entertainment. I live in the upper midwest. Your thoughts please.
Posted 2010-10-02 9:52 AM (#125389 - in reply to #125387) Subject: RE: internet
Extreme Veteran
Posts: 406 Location: Minneapolis, MN
If you're thinking about streaming video, downloading movies. Then no, you would exceed your daily bandwidth (Fair Access Policy)....and then they (HughesNet) slows you down so far, that dial-up seems fast. $60/month gets you 500 meg daily.
Posted 2010-10-02 10:31 AM (#125391 - in reply to #125387) Subject: RE: internet
Elite Veteran
Posts: 736 Location: Western WA
FCC regulations ban installation of internet transmitting devices on a vehicle. I looked into having a Hughes dish put on my LQ trailer and Hughes said no. For TV your best bet is DirectTV, for internet a smart phone or air card. Funny story in inquiring with Hughes about an internet dish. At that time, and maybe still today, Hughes customer service was based in India. I used their online chat tool to make my inquiry, and there was a very LLOONNGG pause when I indicated my question had to do with getting internet access in my horse trailer. In hindsight, its quite amusing visualizing the cultural translation challenge to understand why someone would want internet in a horse trailer, for someone probably not familiar with LQ trailers. I should have just said RV.
Posted 2010-10-03 7:47 AM (#125413 - in reply to #125387) Subject: RE: internet
Location: Central Arkansas
Sportchassis sells the internet packages for their trucks. It is my understanding, you can get it anywhere you can get signal, like satelite radio. They told me that if it was in the truck, you could also access it in the trailer as long as the truck was parked within a certain radius of the trailer. A lot of the prevost buses that the country music folks have use this same system.
Posted 2010-10-03 2:04 PM (#125423 - in reply to #125387) Subject: RE: internet
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Posts: 105 Location: Illinois
If Sports Chassis can't help then contatct Diamond Coach. They do buses, Prevost, for the country western singers. Located near Nashville Tn. Kylee Ervin runs the company. Have not met her but her grandmother is a good friend. www.diamondcoaches.com She probably could help also.
Posted 2010-10-04 10:14 AM (#125447 - in reply to #125387) Subject: RE: internet
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Posts: 114 Location: Home of the WNFR at Christmas
As someone who has had the privilege of travelling in a Diamond Coach converted Prevost, your friends granddaughter's company knows what they are doing ! Yes I have surfed the internet and watched dish or direct ( don't remember what one was on the bus) while in motion. Just do some google searches for in-motion television or internet.
Now I just have to figure out how to get my horse up the stairway into the bus ...
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