mikegorham
join:2005-10-04
San Mateo, CA
|  Snowbird Question: can I move my dish?
I'm out in the sticks of Montana and need a faster connection for work. I'm only up here in the summers and heard you can suspend HughesNet service for 6 months. Anyone take this route?
Or could I have them install the dish, but take it with me when I go south for the winter? Does aiming a HughesNet dish take a lot of effort? I've read a lot of RV owners do this with tripod or autoaiming setups.
I'm leaning towards HughesNet because of the service suspension, but I like the WildBlue FAP much better. Can you move and reaim a WildBlue dish as easily? |
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grohgreg
Dunno. Ask The Chief
join:2001-07-05
Dawson Springs, KY
1 edit | You can do that, or just get a 2nd outdoor unit. There are usually some available on eBay. Install an ODU at each location, both pointed at the same satellite. Then all you have to do is transport the modem between locations. There's a provision in the user interface to tell the modem what it's current location is, either by ZIP code or lat/lon.
But Wildblue uses spotbeam technology, so moving the dish out from underneath it's assigned beam - won't work.
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dbirdman
Premium,MVM
join:2003-07-07
Eureka, CA
| Very important: If you just call up Hughes and have them install service you will by default be assigned to 9000 service that, like Wildblue, is spot beam and cannot be moved.
You need an HN7000S modem, as that is the only modem/service currently able to be commissioned and also moved.
Lots of used modem/dish/tripod systems available these days for a fraction of new. Ebay, the marketplace section at DatastormUsers.com, and the Yahoo group RVInternetBySatellite groups are good places to find them, with the HN7000S modem being the critical item. Can't be a DW7000 or earlier, as they are not able to be commissioned anymore.
You can then use a "tripod-friendly" dealer to get service turned on. Explore my (free) utilities in the articles section at DatastormUsers that make the pointing process easier as well as the telling the modem where it is located part.
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