My girlfriend lives out in the sticks, and the only television provider that will cover where she lives is Dish Network, who I hear is terrible. She is too far from a tv station to pick anything up with an antenna. Is there anything else she can try? I'm not too concerned about Internet as much as cable. It doesn't have to be HD either. Does anyone have any ideas?
lare
for years i lived on a ranch in Wyoming 40 miles from civilization as you know it and no off-air TV. I had a Dish subscription and found it worked reasonably well. with Dish you pay extra if you want to get local TV channels, but Dish covers most of rural America. with Direct the local TV channels are included in the base price, but they only cover a few of the largest TV markets.
i eventually dropped my Dish sub in favor of just getting DVD movies from netflix. netflix doesn't do that anymore so i dropped them too. As to internet, you can get asymmetric service from Wild Blue or Hughes Net satellites. It is high speed down but slow uplink. you can't do VoIP with them for instance. that was a lot better than the rural phone line dial up service.
Gordon
go to antennaweb.org and double check that she can not get OTA TV. Otherwise her only options would be Dish Network or Direct TV.
Anonymous
there are some internet sticks. it's like usb but it is actually an internet dongle which might use 3g 4g or lte