I used to work at radiocrap.com. The PC service requires you to have the
parabollic dish (18" x 24") so that it can be aimed at two seperate satellites,
one for TV and one for the PC connection.
> no rumor, Radio Shack has it. You can get tv and internet on the same
> dish. Main problem: The internet service is MSN.
> Joe
> > RUMOR: I was at the new CostCo in ChrisTown just after they opened (early
> > December) and had an interesting conversation with the guy who
> > was managing
> > their computer stock. He said that CostCo had recently signed a
> > contract with
> > some (unnamed) company to be the exclusive distributor of a NEW
> > service that's
> > launching in the March-April time-frame. This is supposedly a
> > satellite-based
> > service that uses one of the little 19" dish antennae and will provide a
> > hundred or more cable TV channels, phone, and high-speed internet
> > access, all
> > for a price he said would be comparable to what you'd pay Cox
> > Cable for about
> > the same service.
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