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Direct TV bad...
- Thread starter beluga
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I live in the Boston area, and it has bee snowing since 3pm today, it's sleeting out now and my DirecTv hasn't hiccupped once today. I've been watching football all day. In my experience it's much better than cable tv.
Same boat here; I've had satellite for 6 years, only lost signal once during a huge thunderstorm (too much water/interference in the air between the dish and bird).
A trick I learned from one of my dealers (I sell electronics to custom installers) was to scrub the dish surface with a Scotchbrite pad, let it dry and spray 2-3 thin layers of silicone lubricant on it. Prevents any snow of ice from sticking and gets the rain off the dish a bit faster.
A trick I learned from one of my dealers (I sell electronics to custom installers) was to scrub the dish surface with a Scotchbrite pad, let it dry and spray 2-3 thin layers of silicone lubricant on it. Prevents any snow of ice from sticking and gets the rain off the dish a bit faster.
I had direct tv and I didnt like it for that same reason, I'd be watching a show and it would rain and then show over. I learned that you can improve your setup by waterproofing the connections with some of that spray on plastic dip stuff and placeing a garbage bag over the LNB and tying it down. Hell mine would go out if the wind blew to hard. I like cable I have had 3" of water covering my yard and still was able to watch HBO and be on the internet........
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Dumped mine for the same reason Comcast never goes out in a storm
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dumped the cable 'cause they took weeks to come fix an outage, didn't fix the problem and when they also discovered that our upstairs neighbor-theives were stealing cable from our line they chose to "observe the situation" to supposedly get evidence that they were stealing cable, (doesn't the fact that one of their cable tech-morons actually saw the evidence along with the apartment manager count for anything?) after 6 months of this bullshit, we hooked up with Dish and never looked back. the longest we have been without picture since is about 5 minutes. whenever comcast calls about switching back, if i don't laugh loudly in their ear and hang up, i cuss them out for being the bloated scum they are.