Ice Down The DirectWay Dish It's Winter

rockinmywaypa · Feb 4, 2004

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My parents dish was installed in a flower bed about fifty feet from their house. Partly because there is a lot of trees blocking the signal close to the house and partly because they are old and the installer wanted to make it easy for them to clean it off. It is about waist high. High enough to be out of the snow, easy to reach.

PineRidge · Feb 4, 2004

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rockinmywaypa I think we are talking about two different dishes here. My DirecTV dish that serves for TV reception is also on the ground. It is easy to keep clean and only receives satellite signals. I installed my own, not bad with a compass.

My DirectWay dish is on the roof is serves as high speed 2-way communication for our computers only. Most of them are either mounted off the ground on posts or roof mounts such as mine because they transmit as well as receive. You would not want to stand in front of one of these dishes while they are transmitting. Probably like putting ones own head in a microwave oven I would imagine. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif For safety sake they must be professionally installed by a technician.

kensfarm · Feb 4, 2004

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To keep the "old farm" look.. I had them mount mine on the back of the old smoke house.. it is high enough to clear the tractor when I mow.. but low enough I can still reach it w/ a broom.

rockinmywaypa · Feb 4, 2004

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My mistake. Actually I was just talking to a salesman about one of those today. I am getting awfully tired of being booted off my extremely slow dialup.I thought directway was just tv.

PineRidge · Feb 4, 2004

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<font color="blue">My mistake. Actually I was just talking to a salesman about one of those today. I am getting awfully tired of being booted off my extremely slow dialup.I thought directway was just tv.
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rockinmywaypa if you do decide to get DirectWay you are going to love it compared to dial up. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

moeh1 · Feb 4, 2004

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Mike,
Glad to offer an alternative. I did some microwave work years ago in college. Got a tour of the AT&T remote telephone stuff once. They all have covers over the dish and the signal is fed into it via a rectangle tube called a waveguide. The entire system including the dish is nitrogen charged to keep it dry therefore no rust. Guy giving the tour told us a funny story, the day after Christmas one year the alarm goes off indicating the pressure dropped. They eventually traced the leak to the dish cover, had to send a guy up 200' to patch a little hole in it. Next time they had the system down for maintenance he found a 22 cal bullet in the bottom of the waveguide. A few stops around the neighbor found the parent who got his kid a new 22 for Xmas- never happened again. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif I will be looking at this setup when I retire, do they offer a setup for both TV and internet in one dish? how well do you like it?

PineRidge · Feb 4, 2004

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Marty I originally got my DirecTV dish to serve my TV and for downloads only (one-way) to my computer. Then I found out about the DirectWay 2-way system and added it to serve the computers only. The DirecWay4000 system was the 1st system that they made and is also the one I use. The next generation is DiredWay6000 and I understand that that system is an improved version that also makes the task of networking the high speed connection even easier between multiple computers.

Since my place sits some 750 feet off the road my only other option for a good Internet connection was cable. Those boys wanted $1200.00 bucks to get the cable to my home even though I had an open trench for the utilities. So I had satellite installed instead and we love it. Since our business is Internet & mail order sales we rely very heavily on the system to perform. And that it does very well. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif