Dune
Senior Member
I'm moving the boat to a marina that has no Wi-Fi or cable TV. The boat came with a satellite dome and receiver, but I've never used it and know nothing about it.
The sat dome is an Intellian HD but the control seems to be a KVH TracVision 4. Is there any way this can be used for sat internet or is this for TV only ?
And if so, is that why some boats have two domes...one for TV and the other for internet data ? (and yeah I know often enough the second one is for nothing...a fake just to look cool !)
I can get internet via creating my own "hot spot" on the iPhone....but it's pretty limiting from a gigabyte data limitation perspective....I'd max it out in no time unless I upgraded the capacity to a rather costly situation. Same deal with those stand alone cell data network devices....even 90 bucks a month doesn't get you much data...not enough to even watch one web based movie.
Thoughts ?
The sat dome is an Intellian HD but the control seems to be a KVH TracVision 4. Is there any way this can be used for sat internet or is this for TV only ?
And if so, is that why some boats have two domes...one for TV and the other for internet data ? (and yeah I know often enough the second one is for nothing...a fake just to look cool !)
I can get internet via creating my own "hot spot" on the iPhone....but it's pretty limiting from a gigabyte data limitation perspective....I'd max it out in no time unless I upgraded the capacity to a rather costly situation. Same deal with those stand alone cell data network devices....even 90 bucks a month doesn't get you much data...not enough to even watch one web based movie.
Thoughts ?
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