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Funny, my apartment complex had a 30" dish pointed at 101 (for DirecTV) and it would go out several times a year when any sort of marginally severe storm passed over or just to the south of Bixby. Last year it went out for a long time in the snow/ice storm, and it wasn't due to accumulation on the dish.
Since they canned the satellite and put in the cable, I've had exactly one TV outage. The Internet service craps out a little more often than my DSL line did, though.
Of course, in south Tulsa, everything is buried, so wind damage isn't an issue. The people I know in midtown are constantly complaining about regular power outages.
I had satellite for 6 years, and regardless of the alignment of the dish, it crapped out on a regular basis, sometimes (slow moving storms) for an hour or more at a time. That's not to say I haven't had cable crap out for that long, though.
We can all go round and round about whose service has more outages, but the reality of the situation is that they both crap out on a semi-regular basis in most cases. I happen to be lucky with everything but electricity being underground, making actual wire more reliable than a dish. We're all just justifying our choices to ourselves. | |
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| My experience is only with Dish Network. I've never had DirecTV. I would imagine the technology is similar, but perhaps the difference in orbital slots or maybe the spectrum of the radio waves has some effect, I'm not sure.
I know that my Dish works great through thunderstorms, heavy rains, and snow.
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