a hundred bucks and started downloading movies off the internet while in marina's that had a pretty good signal. I would store the movies on a hard drive for use later. It worked well because I used a small "Acer Computer" to do the downloading and just kept it running while in the marina. Most of the time I would start it late at night when most people were off the internet because it took up so much band width and the internet systems in the marinas in Mexico aren't vey robust. Nobody cared about the legality of downloading movies so we never worried about it either and used the program called "Bit Torrent". I suppose it would work in the states as well.