We often get the question of TV and Internet on the same dish and if we say no, the usual answer is 'but we do it in the US'. We've had customers angry at us, saying that we're giving them a wrong story, and they're simply going to buy a little oval dish at Best Buy for 199 bucks and install and point it themselves. Thus far, we've never seen one work, but we've seen many lying around being used for birdbaths or something equally non-intended. It really is not possible in the DR to have TV and and Internet connection on the same dish at present. Yes, people have done it resulting in real bad satellite TV and an internet connection that perhaps works sometimes when the wind blows in a certain direction
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Eddie's explanation makes a lot of sense - if you take that and confuse it with another LNB carrying an internet signal, you're really in for bad service. On the Internet side we also use 6 foot (1.2 meter) dishes, and in some cases 1,8 meter dishes, because of where we are situated in terms of the footprint. In the US, on the little oval shaped dishes, it is easy to physically carry two LNB?s on the dish and there are a number of satellites to point to both for television and for an internet connection.
For internet, we now have many more options in the Caribbean. We have satellites with footprints covering specifically the Caribbean, Central America and South America. In a sense, our job has become easier as we do not have to mess with half-legal television signals from other countries and can offer completely legal services. For internet connections as well, we use mostly top of the line dishes, specifically designed for an internet connection, and we don't use dishes made for receiving a television signal.