supercub
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What's involved with using Hughes Net. I've called but they haven't returned my call yet. Thinking of using at home and in the motorhome. What kind of dish do you need for both places, does one dish handle both tv and internet.....what does the equimpment cost.....and how much for monthly fees? Thanks for any and all info.
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Tobylk
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I have hughes.net at home (no cable in the area) and it works fine. Runs me about $79 a month. They have different plans for different speeds. The dish is HUGE, twice the size of my Directv dish. I don't know if hughes.net makes smaller dishes for RV's or not. I've had mine for about 4 years now.
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Also have hughes at home, and have been very happy with it. One of the frequent posters uses it on the road, and will probably chime in here. Our dish is same size, or maybe slightly smaller, than our dishnetwork superdish. I pay around $70 per month using the smaller plan. I can't remember what the equipment cost was, but it was worth it for us to get away from dial up in our very rural area.
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hwybnb
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If you ask Hughes about using it on the road they will tell you it can't be done. They do not support mobile applications. Many people however use tripod-mounted HughesNet dishes. If you take a look at the HughesNet ISP and Tripod User forums on the DataStorm User Group web site you will find a lot of discussion on the subject.
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fourfurz
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I use a Verizon wireless card in my laptop and I find that to be quite adequate for mobile use. It works virtually everywhere and I have an antenna with a 10' cord for those difficult to receive a signal locations. So far, I haven't been disappointed. It also works great as a backup to the home DSL. Cost: About $60 a month total, including tax.
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The Hughes Net satellite system is provided by them directly and a number of contract providers. Only difference there I have been able to find is that Hughes will assign you a satellite when you subscribe based on your address and their use rates. If you get your service direct from them they won't change it. This could be a problem depending on where you want to travel to and still have service. Our provider, Mobile Satellite Technologies, allows 2 switches a year, which enabled me to get on a bird I could use in Alaska as well as the east coast.
We have a fixed dish on a pole in the back yard, and a DirecStar auto locating dish on the rig. I have routers and a spare modem power supply in both home and rig, so all I have to move is the modem when we go on the road or get home. Because the antenna radiates a fair amount of RF energy the Hughes folks don't want them at ground level or on tripods, but many people do this to save the price of the mobile antenna.
You definitely need a separate dish for full service satellite TV. They were strapping a couple of LNB's to some of the older Internet dishes to get some limited TV reception, but with the explosion of HD programming and increases in the numbers of satellites you need to see, I don't think they're doing much of that anymore. Right now MotoSat or the SK-3005 TRAVELER from Winegard are the only mobile mounted setups that can get all the DirecTV channels. I don't have Dish, so can't help there. Regardless what King Dome says, they do NOT provide full HD service.
We're reasonably pleased with the services, but DirecTV is still raising rates and I expect Hughes to do the same. Phone bills don't go down so I shouldn't expect anything else to. Just understand that ALL these satellite systems are going to drop out in moderate to heavy rain, and they will not work under a leaf or pine tree cover.
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JUrban wrote:
You definitely need a separate dish for full service satellite TV. They were strapping a couple of LNB's to some of the older Internet dishes to get some limited TV reception, but with the explosion of HD programming and increases in the numbers of satellites you need to see, I don't think they're doing much of that anymore.
We're reasonably pleased with the services, but DirecTV is still raising rates and I expect Hughes to do the same. Phone bills don't go down so I shouldn't expect anything else to. Just understand that ALL these satellite systems are going to drop out in moderate to heavy rain, and they will not work under a leaf or pine tree cover.
John John, not true. We just changed from a Hughes Net tripod system to a Motosat system which includes the BOW TV system for Dish TV. We get both 110 and 119 plus our Internet satellite. The system is also available for Direct TV. The only thing you don't get right now is HD TV, but it is still a digital signal and they are working on being able to get HD with just the one satellite also. It is a great system and much better than setting up a tripod every time we stop.
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What kind of dish.. See photo below
What's involved: You need to have it installed, and pay for it,
Can you use the same dish for TV.. Perhaps, depends on who does the install and what bird you are assigned to and what TV service you have..
Can you get an automatic roof mounted dish? (Around six grand) yes http://www.motosat.com
Should you: Well, my choice was a ground mounted tripod. both have advantages and I've covered them elsewhere in assorted TV threads Same logic
Rooftop dish, quick set up (Usualy a minute or two) you can pull off in a rest stop and check your E_mail
Tripod: 15-30 minutes of work to set it up
Rooftop when parked under a tree: NO JOY
Tripod when parked under a tree: JOY
Those are the basics
Same service home and on road: Yes, you will need two antennas though (or, if the RV is parked close enough to the house... NOT just run some CAT-6 )
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I started with a home system installed for $250 plus $59/month. Bought a extra sat dish on Ebay for $45 and had a good survey tripod and made my own adapter to mount dish to tripod so less than $400 in both systems. By just removing the modem from the house to the MH and setting up the dish -15 to 30 minutes- I'm on line. After 18 months I found a MotoSat auto system installed on the MH for $3000 but I still carry the tripod for trees. May stop carrying the tripod as I bought a good compass/inclinometer that lets me hit holes in the trees when you would say NO WAY you're going to get a signal. I'm able to get TV off same dish but have to change the mounting if I move very far from home. I've found too many places where there is not cell coverage for dependable Internet..Maybe some day. We are still working so it's either stay home or have internet while on the road. Not cheap, but well worth it for us.
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