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On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:46:07 -0400, iBoaterer
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On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 08:54:42 -0400, Wayne.B
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On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 08:33:31 -0400, "F.O.A.D."
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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.

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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.

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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.