03-16-2008, 03:02 AM
My neighbor and I got tired of the rain fade with Dish and ordered Direct. [
]When the installer came out and showed us the equipment and where it could and couldn't go we both canceled the order. [V]One thing the Direct TV satellite is lower on the horizon. So much lower that the neighbor was going to have to install a tall 20' tower about 150' from the house [:0]to mount the dish on because his other neighbors trees were blocking the horizon if the dish was put on the house. The reason I canceled was due to the mounting options. Right now the Dish is on an eve of the house where the cable wires come out. The new dish is too big to put on the roof (do to wind loading problems) and the installer tried to convince me to let him put it in the middle of the yard! That was NOT acceptable. [V]
The other reason I wanted Direct TV, is they had a better package of channels available. Dish requires two dishes to be installed to get the extra channels that Cathie and I want to get. That gets expensive. If you call Dish you get the "No problem, we'll set you up and only charge you $49.95 plus the upgrade" Right!!
] Then you get the "Gee... You're in Hawaii" speech. That is going to cost more
!] I started to do this with Dish last year and talked to the local installer. At that time he said Dish was getting ready to make some changes to their systems and that it would make living with rain fade a little better. I called him again after canceling with Direct TV to see when thing were going to change. He told me that the changes are to be going into effect sometime this month or in April. As it is now programing comes from two different satellites to get the two extra channels we want. The main change is the signal strength is going to be boosted to help with the rain fade. There was more to the story but It just went in one ear and out the other. I'm going to call him again at the end of this month and see if there have been any changes yet. Sorry for the long post and hope it make sense.[?]
Royall
What goes around comes around!
]When the installer came out and showed us the equipment and where it could and couldn't go we both canceled the order. [V]One thing the Direct TV satellite is lower on the horizon. So much lower that the neighbor was going to have to install a tall 20' tower about 150' from the house [:0]to mount the dish on because his other neighbors trees were blocking the horizon if the dish was put on the house. The reason I canceled was due to the mounting options. Right now the Dish is on an eve of the house where the cable wires come out. The new dish is too big to put on the roof (do to wind loading problems) and the installer tried to convince me to let him put it in the middle of the yard! That was NOT acceptable. [V]The other reason I wanted Direct TV, is they had a better package of channels available. Dish requires two dishes to be installed to get the extra channels that Cathie and I want to get. That gets expensive. If you call Dish you get the "No problem, we'll set you up and only charge you $49.95 plus the upgrade" Right!!![
] Then you get the "Gee... You're in Hawaii" speech. That is going to cost more![!] I started to do this with Dish last year and talked to the local installer. At that time he said Dish was getting ready to make some changes to their systems and that it would make living with rain fade a little better. I called him again after canceling with Direct TV to see when thing were going to change. He told me that the changes are to be going into effect sometime this month or in April. As it is now programing comes from two different satellites to get the two extra channels we want. The main change is the signal strength is going to be boosted to help with the rain fade. There was more to the story but It just went in one ear and out the other. I'm going to call him again at the end of this month and see if there have been any changes yet. Sorry for the long post and hope it make sense.[?]Royall
What goes around comes around!