With the impending doom of Shaw moving to mostly HD in the next couple years, I have begun yet again to try and figure out how not to lose Canadian reception. We switched from Bell to Shaw when Bell did this, and things have been good but going downhill and will only get worse.
I was researching various options and came across Sat-IP boxes. They claim to take the coax signal from the dish and convert it to an IP compatible signal, something that could be sent over the internet perhaps with some effort and good bandwidth connections. But I have yet to find a Sat-IP client that then converts the signal back into a coax. Obviously the intention is your receiver just takes the Sat-IP input and decodes it there.
As far as I know there is no way to use a 3rd party receiver with Sat-IP compatibility with any Shaw channels. True?
So that means I would need to use my original Shaw receivers which only take coax, so I would need to convert the IP signal back again.
My plan is leaning towards installing the dish at our house in Canada where it should get all the signals. Yay. But now I need the signal 3000 miles away. With a coax to sat-ip to coax to receiver, I think that would work best as the receiver is local. Looking at slingboxes and stuff, it seems like they have lots of lag in the video to remote presses and suffer from random rebooting, freezing, and otherwise requiring a human to be present every so often to give it a kick which isn't viable.
Anyone else looking into alternatives for the future?
I was researching various options and came across Sat-IP boxes. They claim to take the coax signal from the dish and convert it to an IP compatible signal, something that could be sent over the internet perhaps with some effort and good bandwidth connections. But I have yet to find a Sat-IP client that then converts the signal back into a coax. Obviously the intention is your receiver just takes the Sat-IP input and decodes it there.
As far as I know there is no way to use a 3rd party receiver with Sat-IP compatibility with any Shaw channels. True?
So that means I would need to use my original Shaw receivers which only take coax, so I would need to convert the IP signal back again.
My plan is leaning towards installing the dish at our house in Canada where it should get all the signals. Yay. But now I need the signal 3000 miles away. With a coax to sat-ip to coax to receiver, I think that would work best as the receiver is local. Looking at slingboxes and stuff, it seems like they have lots of lag in the video to remote presses and suffer from random rebooting, freezing, and otherwise requiring a human to be present every so often to give it a kick which isn't viable.
Anyone else looking into alternatives for the future?
