You can buy small USB high speed internet modems that go into your Laptops USB port now'a'days.so nobody needs cable or a phoneline to get on the internett anymore.(I use one on my laptop when operating Ham radio from a portable hilltop location to keep intouch and make scheduels with other VHF/UHF hams on internett chat. > What if the sat receiver has a "built in" mobile telefon modem with internett call up.and it dails up the service at each "Pay for View" to up date your bill. > On Sun, at 11:09 AM, Jan Lustrup LA3EQ wrote: After the system is set up you remove the dial up phone line and the system provides uplink and downlink via the dish using 3 LBN's I did not invent the system I just installed it. You must initially use a phone line to set the account up and verify the modem/dish setup. > The second part of what I was talking about was the way a Hughes Net Satellite modem is set up for High Speed satellite internet. The posibility of using a wireless modem is exceedingly small, the wireless companies would charge them for airtime and that would drive up costs. There is the possiblity it uses a wireless setup that connects to my wireless router but I did not have to configure it and it is not a new receiver. Acsalaska fiwi tv#First the pay per view issue was my home Direct TV setup, I have looked and can find no way to determine why it would be able to upload the pay per view when there is not now nor has there ever been a phone line involved. > Jan you are off on a wild goose chase here, look you guys are all the radio and astronomy experts, I own a computer services company. > Subject: Re: Small Dish Radio Astronomy > The Society for Amateur Radio Astronomy (SARA) and, I was told this directly several times by DirectTV tech reps. At some point the system will ask you to connect a phone line to dump that info via dial up. > All Direct TV receivers employ a "smart card" that I believe is capable of storing info such as pay per view orders. We generally do not order pay per view on these, but the one time I did, I got an onscreen message asking that I connect a phone line. > I have 2 other receivers in the house, neither of which have a phone line. My main DirectTV DVR receiver has a phone line always connected.
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