Hey Rick, I travel the country in my motorcoach, it has a automatic Direct TV dish mounted on the roof just like on a house and the regular Direct TV HD DVR inside. I move locations about once a week. I'm in a campground under the trees, I'm getting all the channels, but the channel directory is not updating since I'm not seeing all three satellites. Connecting the Direct TV box to the internet would fix that, so I ran an Ethernet cable from the back of the Direct TV box through a router and to my laptop that is using campground wifi, but the Direct TV can't see it. I just wondered if I am even able to do that.
Can I use my laptop (8.1) that is connected to the internet via wifi, as a wired Ethernet connection to my Direct TV box so it has a internet connection?
USE LAPTOP ON WIFI FOR DIRECT TV INTERNET