Are two satellite dishes required to receive TV and internet?
I’ve looked on both web sites of DirecTV and Hughes Sat Net and neither answer that question directly. I would have to quess that means two dishes are needed.
Satellite customers in the U.S. typically have a terrestrial Internet service, i.e. DSL via the landline phone company. Direct satellite Internet services do exist, but there are limitations that many customers don’t like, such as very slow upload speed.
A second dish antenna should never be necessary, although it’s not impossible. Uploading Internet directly to a satellite might require a separate antenna in some systems. But again, that only becomes an issue if you’re in the minority that chooses satellite for Internet service.
Satellite is great for TV, but great Internet service (compared to other options) is still in the future.
HDTV on KQED is getting cropped for DirecTV standard-def subscribers
