Satellite Dish

[Postiephil]

Hi, everyone been in Europe over a week now. Travelled from Calais to Bruges to Luxembourg to Switzerland and now we are in lake Garda . The good lady is missing her soaps and reality tv , as smarty sim is pretty bad for streaming and site wifi’s are hit and miss . Putting it out there is fitting a satellite dish worth considering.

 

[ctc]

I have a fitted satellite dish, rarely used, doesn't work if you are under trees or behind an obstruction . We have a stand alone dish, bought cheap in France and about 15m of twin cable takes 5 minutes to put up gets all the channels if you point it at the right satellite. Very easy to choose a different satellite to watch english language channels when out of the UK footprint.

 

[Postiephil]

Good point had not considered the stand alone option

 

[Stealaway]

Hi, everyone been in Europe over a week now. Travelled from Calais to Bruges to Luxembourg to Switzerland and now we are in lake Garda . The good lady is missing her soaps and reality tv , as smarty sim is pretty bad for streaming and site wifi’s are hit and miss . Putting it out there is fitting a satellite dish worth considering.

Very few people are fitting satellite dishes now. You certainly wouldn't be able to watch any English soaps that far south .
Bruges and maybe Luxembourg if you are lucky ---- sorry

 

[Realist]

Starlink roam.

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[tonka]

You need to be aware of the footprint of the satellite..
Once you reach certain areas you loose the area covered by the channels you want to get ie BBC / ITV so while a dish may be fine in some places, you can loose it if you go outside the area covered. You can get bigger dishes but there is a limit to how big you can put on your roof.

 

[Lenny HB]

A sat dish won't help in Italy will only work 3/4 of the way down through France.
We have just come back from a 6 week trip to France & Spain never bothered to put our sat dish up just streamed everything.
I was using a RWG 200GB sim £20/month full data allowance when roaming .

As you are already in Italy just buy a local sim.

 

[Postiephil]

Cheers everyone thanks for your feedback maybe will just look into better mobile networks

 

[Deep Owl]

I watched Wimbledon on BBC1 on the aire in Milan on a sunny day a few years ago, using an 85cm dish, which went off when a cloud came over! It didn’t work at all in Lake Garda, but it may work in the South of France.

 

[ctc]

Got everything at Garda with a 85cm dish.

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[Nyvern]

I have a 85cm dish in south of France. Working on certain channels including ITV today but no BBC