Markie
join:2003-07-26
Kalispell, MT
1 edit | reply to jimbo2150
Re: Published data
said by jimbo2150
But I have had many family/friends who were not "blocked" by trees or buildings but got so fed up with poor quality, connection drop off or partial blockage that they got rid of satellite, even though the sat company places them in the "non-blocked" category. Simply put, nothing is as good a straight wire connection.
This is nonsense. As long as someone has decent line of sight (which can usually be attained even when an installer initially tells them they don't, since most installers are only going to do easy installs), there is no reason for poor quality, connection drop-off, etc.
Those problems are almost always caused by poor installation (including ironic due to your argument, bad wiring). I have had to fix many satellite installs for friends with problems like you describe and they've never had a problem again. The MOST COMMON issue is bad connectors - most satellite installers, at least here, do not know how to do an F-connector properly (ironic given the F-connector was designed to be nearly idiot-proof). Then poor dish alignment (many installers get alignment done very poorly - they'll only check one transponder on each orbital slot for location and be slightly off so another sat at the same location doesn't come in properly). Sometimes crushed cabling (I saw an installer use heavy duty staples on the cable - the whole cable run needed replaced obviously). |
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jimbo2150
join:2004-05-10
Youngstown, OH
| Whatever the problem may be, it was still an issue.
Also, I was in Florida a few years ago in a hotel with satellite TV installed -- no trees, no buildings blocking (clear line of sight). A passing shower (light overcast) caused the signal to be dropped for 4 hours just reaffirms my and my friends' issue with satellite.
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Markie
join:2003-07-26
Kalispell, MT
| If that happened, there was something very very wrong with the installation.
Cable can have installation problems to. What you mention aren't satellite problems, they're bad installer problems.
My mother had the first E-MTA destoryed when she first switched to cable - the uneducated installer plugged it in backwards to a still-live phone line without disconnecting the phone line first. The phone rang, the E-MTA fried. Getting it replaced (the installer had gone already) was tough too, since if you unplugged it it worked for a minute (the line like seized off-hook so it'd work when first plugged in until the line went dead from being off hook so long); so they kept asking her to just restart it. Never mind that you couldn't call in and had to restart it before making a phone call... |
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