My biggest issue with satellite is the loss of the signal every time it snows or rains heavily. If it weren't for this, I'd recommend it with whole heart.
I live in Colorado, and Have DirecTV. Suprisingly if you have your dish properly secured to your house, then you should not have any signal loss. My dish has Weatherd 3 Blizzards, Countless Hail storms, and Apocalyptic weather changes and through all this I only lost signal once when a tree fell on my house.
I live in Colorado, and Have DirecTV. Suprisingly if you have your dish properly secured to your house, then you should not have any signal loss. My dish has Weatherd 3 Blizzards, Countless Hail storms, and Apocalyptic weather changes and through all this I only lost signal once when a tree fell on my house.
Rain fade? I've had DirecTV since 1997 in two houses-- one in Florida (installed myself) and one in Chicago (DirecTV installed). I get rain fade maybe once every six weeks, and then for 1-2 minutes maximum. We just had a record-setting winter in Chicago and I think I had fade maybe twice all winter.
I have several neighbors who use Dish and they're all happy as well.
In contrast, I've got two neighbors who have Comcast. One has a Comcast truck outside his house every two weeks with problems. The other loved Comcast at first (switched from Dish) as he loved VOD, but now is saying that he's going back to satellite as he says that the VOD stuff rarely changes and his cable goes out weekly for hours at a time.
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Andy Anonymous @ Apr 30th 2008 12:17PM
My biggest issue with satellite is the loss of the signal every time it snows or rains heavily. If it weren't for this, I'd recommend it with whole heart.
William @ Apr 30th 2008 4:58PM
I live in Colorado, and Have DirecTV. Suprisingly if you have your dish properly secured to your house, then you should not have any signal loss. My dish has Weatherd 3 Blizzards, Countless Hail storms, and Apocalyptic weather changes and through all this I only lost signal once when a tree fell on my house.
William @ Apr 30th 2008 4:58PM
I live in Colorado, and Have DirecTV. Suprisingly if you have your dish properly secured to your house, then you should not have any signal loss. My dish has Weatherd 3 Blizzards, Countless Hail storms, and Apocalyptic weather changes and through all this I only lost signal once when a tree fell on my house.
Joe T. @ May 1st 2008 9:32AM
Rain fade? I've had DirecTV since 1997 in two houses-- one in Florida (installed myself) and one in Chicago (DirecTV installed). I get rain fade maybe once every six weeks, and then for 1-2 minutes maximum. We just had a record-setting winter in Chicago and I think I had fade maybe twice all winter.
I have several neighbors who use Dish and they're all happy as well.
In contrast, I've got two neighbors who have Comcast. One has a Comcast truck outside his house every two weeks with problems. The other loved Comcast at first (switched from Dish) as he loved VOD, but now is saying that he's going back to satellite as he says that the VOD stuff rarely changes and his cable goes out weekly for hours at a time.