can you tell if a home satellite dish is receive only, or if transmits too. Home internet dishes transmit?
November 20, 2009
How can you tell if a home satellite dish is receiving only, or if it transmits as well? Some dish companies offer internet service, wouldn’t the dish have to transmit for this to work? If my neighbor has a dish with three receivers pointing right at my apartment, is this dangerous for me? I know the dish wouldn’t work if it was only beaming at my apartment, but what if about half of it is. Is there anything I can use to block out the signal? Thanks.
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TV guy | November 23, 2009 at 11:23 am
Home satellite dishes are receive only.
If you have internet over satellite, the downlink is via satellite, but the uplink is via a modem or DSL, that’s why satellite companies don’t do very well with broadband services.
None of your neighbor’s dishes beam to you.
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lare | November 24, 2009 at 3:50 pm
TVRO dishes are receive only. multiple feed dishes aim at different satellites and are always TVRO.
Wild Blue and Hughs satellite internet would have a separate dish from TV services and they do transmit. they have only one feed which service both the up and down link.
Most modern satellite dishes are off-set feed, so while it may look like its pointed at you, the feed is actually reflected upwards by the dish. its kind of like a billiards shot.
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