David Lang <david@lang.hm> wrote:
    > are you able to sniff between the router and the dish? I'm curious how much
    > of the smarts is in the dish vs the router. My hope is that the router is
    > just a conventional router with the satellite network smarts in the dish.

No.
See the teardowns, such as: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QudtSo5tpLk
It's a huge synthetic antenna.  It's openwrt though.