tomallison24 said:
= I currently have ATT DSL wireless network and home phone. The DSL portion is $30. I haven't been able, by searching, to tell whether Directv offers any internet service other than through other parties. I would like to move from ATT and kill my home phone service. Any ideas?
You will definitely need high speed internet service at your house so that you can use the on demand Cinema features and also for box updates.
DirecTV does not provide internet service but it does have bundling arrangements setup usually via or with the local satellite vendors.
In my area, Quest is the partner. In other locations, may be others.
Let me tell you my story a bit which might be helpful to your questions ...
While Quest has very fast internet 40 Mbps to 60 Mbps is other parts of my city, I learned doing my own research that they only have 1.5 Mbps speeds available in my neighborhood using standard DSL instead of fiber and I would also need to have a phone line for that service.
Like yourself, I do not want nor need any home phone service as the entire family is outfitted with high end android phones.
Because of all of the above, I opted not to go with the bundled internet and satellite package offered by the satellite vendor and instead only ordered DirecTV alone by itself and then went out and got my own internet service on my own.
After shopping around, I found out that the best option in my neighborhood for internet was Comcast cable (ironically) which gives me typically around 45 Mbps network speeds on average where I am at and unlike Quest and other local phone company options did not require a phone line be installed.
So I ended up getting Comcast for the internet service only without television service and getting DirecTV for my television service and I really couldn't be any happier.
Comcast routinely does try to sell me on TV service which is a bit annoying but as they don't have anything that even remotely compares to DirecTV, I also always tell them to go jump off a cliff. They haven't called in quite a while so I guess they've finally gotten the message.
Do installers do any hookups through wireless networking?
The DirecTV boxes actually do not do any communications through the home wireless network
via the WiFi wirelessly though they do have to be hooked into your network.
Each of the DirecTV boxes at my house have an RG6 coax running through the basement connecting each other on a physical coax wired network that feeds to the whole home networking box that DirecTV provided and then that box is physically connected to my wireless router by CAT 6 network cable same as hooking up a wired network computer to the box. The DirecTV installer did the setup on all of that for me all the way up to the point of the wireless router which I provided and it did not cost me anything to setup the "Whole Home" network, running all the coax lines everywhere and the DirecTV installer did a very clean professional unobtrusive job at installing all of those.
All of our android phones automatically switch over to from 4G to WiFi when we are home and I have an app that lets me use my android as a DirecTV remote control which communicate with the wireless router via WiFi and in turn connecting to the DirecTV box via the coax network bridge after it passes the router and that works very well as a backup remote control and is ironically faster responding to key presses than the real actual remote control.
All the laptops at my house do indeed connect wirelessly to the wireless router via WiFi and there is also a software program you can download from the DirecTV website once you are a customer which allows you to play your DVR shows on screen wirelessly to your laptop or home computer which is fabulous for those times late at night or early in the morning when I don't want to wake up anyone with the big loud big screens or when there is disagreement about what shows the rest of the family wants to watch. I can just simply put on my headphones and watch my shows on my laptop streamed by WiFi from the DVR over the interconnected home network and the laptop acts like another DirecTV receiver box.
So anyway to answer your question though, the DirecTV connection to your network and the whole home features is physical itself wired and is not wireless but you can use wireless devices to communicate with the DirecTV boxes via your home wireless router since all your DirecTV boxes are wired indirectly via the Ethernet to Coax bridge that DirecTV provides.
