anyone have satellite internet in their rig?

I think things have improved in recent years. My home dish unit has 2 dvr's capable of receiving 3 channels each(record or watch or both). It has a channel for direct connection to Netflix, on demand and a lot of HD channels which uses a lot of bandwidth...plus I can bounce my home unit thru my wireless network to my phone, which I can connect to my truck tv...they advertise that they have 4g speed anywhere in the country...but knowing Dish...you are probably right about the price, I am sure it can't be cheap. As far as taking it mobile, it might be tough. In order to get the HD system I have at home, it took a larger dish than a standard Dish/Direct TV mini-size dish. The one they installed is roughly the same size as the old Primestar dish from 15 years ago and now receives from 3 satellites...not sure if the satellite internet uses any of those or has a 4th one needed, but the dish is much bigger...and aiming has to be precise. And the post about weather and reception is right too. Although this dish receives better in bad weather...we still lose reception during a typical Florida afternoon thunderstorm.

 

my old laptop had a WiMAX adapter and came with a free trial. I was surprised at the coverage there was and that was a few years ago. If you are near larger city's enough it might work.

 

The satellite internet systems from Hughes have improved a little the last few years (don't need a land-line anymore and a little faster throughput). But they still require precise aiming, they're too big for truck convenience, require 2 RG5 cables, and they have lots of per-day limits, particular hours limits, and you can get throttled back REAL EASY, latency issues, etc etc.

Not a reasonable option for a trucker IMO

 

What if you put your own satellite in space?

 

You can, but I think within 10-15 years (if the creek don't rise) we'll be getting satellite TV through the same type antennas we now get satellite radio. This will make high-speed mobile cellular data not such a large need for truckers and RV'rs.

It's just a matter of how they would charge and manage this type of service. It would probably max out at 1080p while the new home standard will be 4k by then.

 

I expect free internet beamed directly into my fingernails in 10-15 years.

 

I have direct tv with a auto possition satellite and with that I get unlimitid data tgrew them

 

That just blew my mind. What kind of speeds do you get, if you know?

 

What does that cost ?

 

If you're not sure if the speeds you have:

www.speedtest.net

Thats the simplest and easiest way I know of.