Direc Way decision.those that us it, help me here.

PBMAX · Mar 5, 2004

Fishman no you do not have to have a phone line for DTV unless u buy pay per view that way or have a tivo and want them to have data. I ran my self installled DTV dish and 2 receivers for almost 3 yr with no phone line ran to the house at all.

A phone line was required at 1st ( I asked when installing mine) but do to complaints the stopped requiring it. but even then you could do it. We had one at the lake hooked up for a couple yrs before that with no phone either.

But I was told by DirecWay fellow at last yrs Home and Garden show you do need a land line for intial hook up as some one said. But he said he could cheat if I was really interested. (No he didn't tell me how /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif ) so I let it drop at the time.

PBMAX · Mar 5, 2004

PineRidge, if I were start getting that much snow that regular. I would have to move further SOUTH.
LIKE LA (Lower ALABAMA /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif ).... as it is I've had one snow of 7'" in 3 yrs and a few dustings of an inch or less..... and reaching it would be easy were I plan to have it mounted of the corner of my deck rigth next to the DTV dish.... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

My only blockage is really heavy rains at the end of the mountain. I'm up AT 1300' according to GPS and my dish is almost level.... IT's were I get the best signal level 98 on their scale..... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I notice they had a couple diff. versions of the "modem" put have not checked specs yet.
I would asume the new ones are more like a router. Such as they now sell for cable dsl.
To allow multiple PC's direct access. Rather than building/using one pc as a server or such...

PBMAX · Mar 5, 2004

For those that have not hit on it. I used to order pay per view from the office off the DTV web page before I had a land line. No extra charge like the phone and you can manage your acoounts as well... uncluding changing programming choices...(packaging)

TheKid · Mar 5, 2004

I don't have Direct Way, but I do have Starband. Yes it was worth the up front cost of the equipment. I saved some money by going with a three year contract. I pay $49 a month for internet access. My wife made the decision easy. She said "get faster internet, or get a new wife." It's taken me 27 years to train this one so a new one was out of the question.
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slowrev · Mar 5, 2004

Kid,
It sounds like she has trianed you well in the 27 years /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

fishman · Mar 5, 2004

PBurns, that would be a good way to order PPV, I'd expect. It seems like they'd build the connectivity in with the broadband connection as stated earlier. It's a given they will in the future, phone jacks are on the way out.

PBMAX · Mar 5, 2004

I don't know if my old DTV receiver has one but my new Tivo receiver has a usb port on the back and you can get a USB to Ethernot adapter on line at pricewatch.com for under $10.

2 fellows at work have done this with their Tivo's one has DTV and one Cable and both connected right up to their home net work no problem. I'll inquire further and let you now if you'd like as to how well it works...

GareyD · Mar 5, 2004

I just had DirecWay installed about 3 weeks ago....used the $99 month for 15 months, then $49 a month there after...they installed the dish, the new 6000 modem and had it running in about 2 hours....I have 6 computers (5 macs and 1 PC) hooked directly to an eight port hub/switch...haven't had a minutes problem, in fact, clouds/overcast seems to bother this system way less than the DTV...TV goes out with heavy cloud cover....the DirecWay doesn't seem to care /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

GareyD

bebster · Mar 6, 2004

How about the bandwidth you get with DirecWay? I understand the downlink speed is pretty good, but the uplink speed is not that fast. I have DirecTV with Tivo and considering adding the internet connectivity.

EastTexFrank · Mar 6, 2004

Your Direct TV must work slightly differently from ours. With ours your main receiver box doesn't need to be connected to the phone line after initial set up but any additional receivers have to be connected. It seems that they check, using the phone line, that the secondary receiver is connected at regular intervals and if no confirming signal is received, they cancel the card number in the receiver and you lose service to that box. Believe me, I found that out the hard way ... TWICE. I had to run additional line and jack just to keep the darned thing connected.