Wi-Fi for Dish Satellite?

[Cliff]

Situation = I need satellite in an additional room, or two, so I can watch TVG and catch the racing action. Don't particularly won't to pay the Dish people to come out and drop new lines and pay the monthly fee for another receiver or two.

Question = Is there a way to do this via something like the "Rabbit" that Radio Shack used to carry? They now have a 2.4ghz transformer/receiver setup that they claim will work. $100 retail + any extra wiring. Seems a little pricey and was wondering if any of ya'll had any experiences in this area?

Thanks.

[qhrick]

There are a number of ways to do this:

Bear in mind without an additional receiver you will still need to tune the signal from the existing receiver

Here's 3 possibilities:

1) "Leapfrog" check it out at http://www.smarthome.com/7656.HTML
( you can probably do better on the price tho )

2) Wire it yourself, use exisiting outputs on current sat receiver ( either composite, s-video, on component ) depending on what you have on both the receiver and the tv you want to use as the input device

3) A "modulator" - this is what I have, this may be overkill but it has been great for my needs
A modulator sends a signal over an EXISTING coax cable, so if you already have cable in place at the sets you'd like to add the satellite to this may be a possibility
Without going into too much detail a modulator takes one or more sources ( like your sat receiver ) and broadcasts it thruout the home on a specifed channel or channels

In my setup I have 2 sat receivers and a TIVO in my garage, all hooked up to a 3 channel modulator. With that ( and UHF remotes to access the equipment anywhere ) I can watch both satellites and the TIVO any any tv in the house

-rick

[HBee]

qhrick

Do you have the ability to change channels from any tv in the house??

[qhrick]

HBEE:

Yes
I can access either satellite or the TIVO from any tv in the house
Sat1 is channel 120
Sat 2 is channel 125
TIVO is channel 120


I have Dish satellite and have "UHF" remotes for those, which work thru walls, etc

For the TIVO ( actually ReplayTV ) I have the regular ReplayTV remote and an "IR Extender", which is a device that extends normal infra red remotes using RF ( radio frequency )


So I have 3 "modulated" channels 120,122,125

Works well. Picture quality is decent, pretty close to a direct feed via s-video

Again, the main requirement to implement this is pre-exisitng coax cabling to desired sets

-rick

[Cliff]

Thanks qhrick,

I'll do some more research. Wish I had the hard-wired coax....sounds like the way to go.

[Cliff]

If the Leapfrog or other version of the sender/receiver is the same Ghz as the WAN for my computer, would the 2 possibly interfere with each other?

Cliff
(still no decision made, obviously)