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On 9/17/13 1:46 PM, iBoaterer wrote:
In article , says... On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 08:54:42 -0400, Wayne.B wrote: On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 08:33:31 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote: Every so often, I think about converting from cable to dish, but the two dish companies here seem unwilling or incapable of distributing info that is clear and understandable. === Satellite TV service is very susceptible to thunderstorm outages. Fiber optic is the way to go if they have it in your area. I have Dish with the OTA module in the DVR so I get the best of both worlds. Comcast was too unreliable to seriously consider and it would certainly never be my "one pipe" connection to the world. I had one outage with Comcast that I can remember, 3 or 4 years ago. We had a half hour cable outage yesterday in conjunction with a half hour power company outage. |
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Luddite" says... "iBoaterer" wrote in message ... In article , "Mr. Luddite" says... "Wayne.B" wrote in message ... On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 08:33:31 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote: Every so often, I think about converting from cable to dish, but the two dish companies here seem unwilling or incapable of distributing info that is clear and understandable. === Satellite TV service is very susceptible to thunderstorm outages. Fiber optic is the way to go if they have it in your area. ------------------------ I can understand that in your area given the almost daily thunderstorms you have during the summer. Up here we have a few, but not often. When we were in Florida we had Direct TV but we were only there for the winter months with few thunderstorms. The only problem I have up here with Direct TV is that a tree has grown a leaf laden branch directly in liine with the dish to satellite view. It's not normally a problem unless the wind is strong, blowing the limb and leaves around. A tall ladder and a chain saw will take care of that soon. Oh ... and if we have a heavy, wet snowfall, I have to brush it off the dish once in a while. I mounted the portable dish on the railing of a porch that goes off my man cave, so that isn't really a big deal to do. I've heard they have come a long way as far as rain and storms blocking signal. Do you find that to be true? --------------------------------- Hard to tell because I don't know how it was way back when. If we have a very heavy thunderstorm roll in with thick clouds and rain, I'll lose the sat signal until it passes. Same with a heavy snowstorm. But, it really has to be coming down in buckets to screw it up. My dish isn't anything fancy ... just a portable oval type with one "pickup" or whatever it is. What amazed me is when I had it on the boat. Scituate Harbor tides can run 10 feet (low to high) and I never lost the signal or reception. Also, if it was really windy and the boat was moving around a lot in the slip, it also didn't bother it. This was a fixed disk ... not one of the fancy auto adjusting servo types. Worked well. I watch Direct TV at a couple of hotels I frequent when I travel for work, and I really like it. I really like Comcast cable and internet but, they have a stranglehold here and are getting pricey. |
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Luddite" says... "iBoaterer" wrote in message ... My modem isn't a wireless router, I have to add the wireless router inline. Going to check tonight to see if my router is capable and if Comcast is going to D-3.0 here. -------------------------- Well, as an update our connection to the Internet has been rock solid all day today ... for the first time since last Thursday. I did the "reset" thing shortly late last night and it's been stable ever since. I think the router "learns" the D-3.0 protocol in the reset procedure. I'm going to look into mine, it's pretty new, so it may learn it as well. |
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On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 08:54:42 -0400, Wayne.B wrote:
On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 08:33:31 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote: Every so often, I think about converting from cable to dish, but the two dish companies here seem unwilling or incapable of distributing info that is clear and understandable. === Satellite TV service is very susceptible to thunderstorm outages. Fiber optic is the way to go if they have it in your area. I have two neighbors who signed up for FIOS with Verizon. Both are going back to Cox when their two years is up. They came over to tell me about their problems when they saw the Verizon folks digging a trench up to the house. I had called to have it installed. I stopped the installation. Maybe in a couple years they'll get the bugs worked out. Oh, both neighbors complained of problems with Netflix, which we watch quite frequently. -- John H. Hope you're having a great day! |
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wrote in message ... On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:46:07 -0400, iBoaterer wrote: In article , says... On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 08:54:42 -0400, Wayne.B wrote: On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 08:33:31 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote: Every so often, I think about converting from cable to dish, but the two dish companies here seem unwilling or incapable of distributing info that is clear and understandable. === Satellite TV service is very susceptible to thunderstorm outages. Fiber optic is the way to go if they have it in your area. I have Dish with the OTA module in the DVR so I get the best of both worlds. Comcast was too unreliable to seriously consider and it would certainly never be my "one pipe" connection to the world. I had one outage with Comcast that I can remember, 3 or 4 years ago. You might not know how often you have a drop out unless you are pinging the net fairly regularly. I hit it once a minute with the weather station. The outages were usually a few minutes at a time but some went for an hour or more. After a storm like Charley and Wilma, it was out for a couple weeks. TV came back in a week but the net didn't. ----------------------- Direct TV never missed a beat during Wilma at the house we had in Florida. Power went out but I hooked the TV and sat receiver up to the generator. I was watching the storm coverage as the eye passed over us. |
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F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 9/17/13 8:55 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote: "F.O.A.D." wrote in message m... Every so often, I think about converting from cable to dish, but the two dish companies here seem unwilling or incapable of distributing info that is clear and understandable. ------------------------------ We have cable TV service with several High Definition "boxes" in various rooms of the house. It's more for Mrs.E. I rarely watch TV other than some of the cable news channels, the History Channel, re-runs of "MASH" and "Everyone Loves Raymond". Once in a while I'll watch a Patriots game and more often this year, a Red Sox game. I also have the Direct TV box and portable dish that I used to use on the boat. I installed it in my man cave and use it most of the time. One thing that I have noticed (and I think I've mentioned this before) is that the quality of the standard (non-HD) picture from Direct TV often rivals that of Comcast's HD signal. It's not HD obviously but when watching a LCD or Plasma TV from a distance, the difference between the two is not very noticeable. I've been told that Comcast must compress their HD signal much like mp3's compress audio in order to send all the channels over a limited bandwidth capacity cable. We've got "digital" cable and three HD/DVR boxes, and with all that, I still don't find much I like to watch beyond the news/science/history channels. Most of the premium movie channels play the same crappy movies over and over and over, and I have absolutely no tolerance for the "reality" shows. I do like "Newsroom" and "Boardwalk Empire," especially the latter, because it is so dark. Maybe you can get your basement DVR downgraded to receive the expanded cable channels minus the premium channels. |
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