DagNasty,
It may surprise you that not everyone here has time/money to experiment with all the ideas out there. Those that do may not post their findings here, hell they may not even know NS exists. So YOU may have to be the ground braker, and spring for the parts and post your findings.
I tried my google.com foo out...
3 month old article on directv 2.4 ant. yielded the following;
8 mile useable range ~
Of course range is subjective, could be as little as 8 foot to 80 milies.
14 month old article for Primestar
10 mile range~
Of course range is subjective, could be as little as 8 foot to 80 milies.
14 months isn't terribly old IMHO esp. when dealing with an antenna.
Awww damn I guess just proved you didn't google for shiat.
It wasn't real hard, both results were gleaned within the first 10 results of searching.
"directv" + wifi
"primestar" + wifi