Question on Dish / Satellite/ Direct TV.

 Question on  Dish / Satellite/ Direct TV.


I hear a lot about Dish and satellite TV being less expensive than
Cable - Comcast.

I have questions on Dish / Satellite/ Direct TV...I am assuming all of
these install a dish of some kind outside the house.

In terms of installation, wiring, roof  etc- what are the negatives of
this service.
Do they have wires all over the roof / house ?  or is it transparent
and seemless ?
Does it make the place ugly ?

I am wondering what are the installation negatives with the above ?
Any other issues ?

Please let me know as I am totally uninformed with this service.
We live in the SF Bay Area, CA.

Thank you,

Irfan Ballard

  On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 11:30:25 -0700 (PDT), irfanballard@gmail.com wrote:


As much as I've hated having Comcast, Cox, and before that Adelphia,
I'd *MUCH* rather pay the extra to go back to them than the crap Dish
I now have.  I'd take cable Internet in a heartbeat over AT&T DSL, as
well.  Think about this, hard.
 

18" dish, yes.


No, it's pretty unobtrusive.  Mine is on a short pole (5', maybe) in
the back yard.


If you decide to go this way (I wouldn't), don't let a HOA or the city
push you around.  They have no say over outdoor antennas.

 On Apr 3, 2:30 pm, irfanball...@gmail.com wrote:

   I've had both Dish and Direct TV. The reception for both is
entirely dependent upon the weather. When we lived in Colorado, it
was excellent until we had a good snowstorm, at which time I would
have to take a broom out to the dish and brush the snow off in
order to resume reception. Then we moved to Florida when we got
Direct TV. Seems like every good rain or thunderstorm here
here interrupts the satellite connection. So a few years ago
we signed up for cable and have had no problems since then.

I also have my broadband internet connection thru the cable and it is
much fast than the DSL connection that I had thru the phone line.


Phil

 In article


You apparently do not have freezing cold, heaving ground,
critters, or lightning storms.  Between this mix and general
lack of caring, the cable system in our area has outages
nearly every single day.


Fast does little good if it is broken.  In addition, cable is
a shared network, so that speed is divided up among everyone
who uses the cable system.  DSL is a dedicated link, so it
doesn't slow down when the neighbor downloads a movie by
bit torrent or watches a you tube video.  In our area, the
basic Cable and DSL data rates are 6-MB, so DSL ends up being
faster because you are not sharing it.  Plus DSL works when
cable is having their daily outage.

-john-

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 On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 09:09:21 -0500, "John A. Weeks III"


We have all of the above, but our cable system (Time Warner) is never
out, not that I've noticed.  Very reliable service here, and they come
out to fix problems quickly, too.  We have DSL, though, for the
reasons you mentioned and are likely to stay with it for the duration,
especially in light of this usage-based tiered pricing plan TW intends
to implement.