Directv without internet at house

Not understanding your question. Internet is not required at all for Directv. If you get a genie and wireless clients, Directv will supply the necessary equipment but one way or another, the client receivers must connect to the genie. If you get wired clients, Directv will run wiring to them. You can get stand alone receivers for those tv’s but not sure why you would want to.  

I appreciate the info.. How does Genie and wireless.. are they able to communicate with Genie DVR without internet in the house? 

The WVB sets up a separate network WiFi connection to all wireless clients.  DTV only allows 8 receivers on the account.

To add to the above, WVB = Wireless Video Bridge. That is the piece of equipment Directv provides for wireless client receivers to connect to the genie. No other internet equipment is needed.

@poppenhe 

Internet has no bearing on how many TVs you may have connected to the service. It is not required at all. The connection to internet is for the optional On Demand features.

Previously you could have as many TVs authorized for your address as you could afford. Larger setups required more receiving dishes as those could only handle so many tuners before needing to install a 2nd (or 3rd, etc.).

The new billing account system has a hard limit of 8 devices for residential service. No official reason is known why, but suspected that they are making sure what is designated residential vs business accounts.

Genie Advanced Whole Home HDDVR (HR34, HR44, HR54) is 5 tuners and 1TB recording space. You may only have 1 on the account.

Mini Genie Clients (i.e. C61, only line with a wireless version) have no tuners or recording space of their own. They steal all that from the Genie. Only 3 at max may be in use at one time, leaving 2 tuners for the main Genie.

Wireless Clients (C41W and C61W) require a wireless video bridge (WVB). This is not free equipment but a $99 purchase of an owned accessory. Range of up to 80 feet under ideal conditions. Naturally wired is preferred as more reliable.

Regular HDDVR (i.e. HR24) has 2 tuners and 500GB recording space.

HD non-DVR (i.e. H25) has 1 tuner and Autotune.

HDDVR, HD non-DVRs, and Clients may view the recordings of all other HDDVRs on the account (provided on same cabling/dish).

Regular HDDVR is 2 tuners, 500GB recording space.

There is no cost difference between those options as is $7 for each additional TV regardless of what box used. Personally a Genie and HDDVRs is the best setup. Though intro offer normally only covers Genie and up to 3 Clients (so 4 TVs) at no equipment cost.

Genie-2 (HS17) has 7 tuners and 1TB recording space (again, only 1 main Genie allowed on account). Can use up to 7 Clients. Is the only model with the WVB built-in. However it only allows Clients, forbidding actual receivers. A Genie and 2 HDDVRs is already more capable. Also this model being a server tower doesn't go on a TV but counts towards your 8 device limit. So even on the legacy account system, this model has a hard cap.