Question about Prepaid service/FlexTV

[sxmfl]

After more thought, if you are going legit, make sure you have a physical address (not billing) in the Virgin Islands or Puerto Rico. I think the Virgin Islands would be the best because you might qualify for the English
distant networks

, but I'm not sure. Programming packages for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands can be found
here


. I don't know if the $10 Welcome Pack is offered in Alaska, Hawaii, or PR. The spotbeam footprints you need to see for the Caribbean, towards the bottom, is at this link.

As I stated before, if DISH' auditing Nazis ever contact you, you will be screwed if the right spotbeams aren't part of the equation / formula that makes up your location ID displayed on your receiver(s). If you have separate / multiple boxes (with only one dual tuner receiver you'll be safe), let the receivers call the mothership through VoIP from the same phone number / DID. Oh,
VoIP.ms


bills by the second (read their
reviews


) and the calls into the DISH mothership are toll-free I believe, so you won't be charged for them. You can set the outgoing Caller ID / Caller Display (make sure it relates to your physical address) through the VoIP.ms web portal to anything you want, saving yourself a few bucks if you don't want a monthly DID charge.

The problem with using Direclinks is they are a middle man and you are at their mercy, much like you've been with the FTA hobby you are getting out of. I'm assuming you are sick of problems and want a final solution. If you cover yourself with the right physical address for the proper locals and VoIP to call into the mothership, you should have several worry free years of television. Expats in Canada have to go through the same motions.

We have a physical address we can use in Washington DC and Miami, but the only locals we get on 119 are New York, Denver and LA. I think if we hooked up 110, we would have some miami channels but I'm not sure. If anynes know if we'd need to be pointed at 110 also please let us know
We were looking at the prepaid because we were looking and saw that it was possible to set up the service with just a zip code and other small information, can anyone confirm this? Also I'm assuming the prepaid is less controlled.
Amiga, we've added you to skype so if you can help us out it might be easier to find a solution that way. Unfortunately don't know anyone in the USVI or PR :/


The company here that wil set you up with a box is actually Caribtech, and they wanted $400 for an FTA box that we ended up paying $180. So in my opinion, they are theives :P As for dishnetwork, they are asking 425 for the box and 50/mo. !


Thanks for all your help "Amiga"!!!

[dishratz]

The problem with using Direclinks is they are a middle man and you are at their mercy, much like you've been with the FTA hobby you are getting out of.

What the hell do you know about Direclinks? When you know then talk. You know what is a middleman? You know what is a proper account with Dish Network?

[Scott Greczkowski]

Just beware, I am hearing that Dish is investigating Direclinks, dishnetwork-canada and other companies. What works today might not work tomorrow.

Just to be on the safe side of the DMCA I am going to close this one.