Registered: Jun 2003
Location: ALABAMA
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Thinking of switching to Direct TV as I want access to more sports. Right now I am with Comcast and the other game in town is WOW formerly Knology - which offers even less sports.

How bad is Direct TV losing signal when raining? Or even on a windy day.

I have always heard that the satellite cable is dodgy when raining or windy - wondering has the technology gotten better on limiting those problems.

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Buckshot ,we have Directv . We have never lost it because of high winds here ,but if you have big big thunderstorms like way south of us you can lose your signal like from 30 seconds to maybe 5 minutes ,just depends on how fast those big thunderstorm clouds move out .

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Here in Virginia if it is raining most of the time my direct TV goes out. I used to have Dis Network and it was Ok really never had issues with it, but really do not like Direct.

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Only lost signal in a heavy rain like a thunderstorm I have had to go out and knock the snow out of it several times this winter but the sports package is pretty good but if you want MLB or NFL or NBA thats all on different packages but you can watch some college games you may never have heard of

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we have comcast cable as of right now-- but the price is going out the roof internet, cable 160.00 a month, thats just to much-- an now less channels--and if they buy time warner or what ever it is, it's going to go higher!!

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I have direct wouldn't think of changing . it use to go out some added a tv they re adjusted the dish hasn't went out sence except during heavy rain may loose for a minute or so . had Comcast never again

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Had direct they made me mad. Swapped to dish. It goes out in storms and rain. Direct seemed to be better. I may swap back.

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You could not pay me to ever use direct tv again. The service was fine while I had it but the customer service is aweful and they will cheat you anyway they can. When we closed out our account to get just regular TV. I closed out the account on the phone sent the recievers back and everything seemed fine. They even sent me a check for around $75 saying that we had over paid. Then they sent me a bill a month later saying we owed them $125 but said they would love to have us back as costumers. Then they sent me on a rat chase trying to get of the situition taken care of gave me address to write too about the situation but no phone number. They are crooked beware.

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I don't consider them in the same conversation. We've had Digital TV since Their inception. Dish talks the talk, but they can't walk the walk. We would NEVER go back to dish.

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Location: West Virginia
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I've been with Directv for 16 years ,I really like the Tivo setup and how you can customize your programming ,heck you can buy one single channel (ala carte) as they put it . Shoot you can pause live broadcast ,run it backwards for an hour or so and Sports you can have them running out your ears . Shoot me Pm if you want to with any questions .

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We had dish every time it got cloudy it went out got direct now have had it for bout 8 yrs wood never go back to dish!

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We have had a few issues with storms but no other issues with it at all.

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Dish starts you out El-cheapo, Then puts it to you with increases with price increases, every time you turn around. Save the head aches, go with DIRECTV!!

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we have comcast cable as of right now-- but the price is going out the roof internet, cable 160.00 a month, thats just to much-- an now less channels--and if they buy time warner or what ever it is, it's going to go higher!!

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I've got direct tv, it is great. its the ony game in town. you have all football, college sports, baseball, nascar etc, yeah my goes out once in awhile with rain but I'm not getting rid of it any time soon. I had it since prime star and I love my direct tv. work at dish and it is crap trust me, avoid dish.

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I have directv and like it. Only draw back you should consider if you are in the south and like the sec is directv as of now will not carry the sec network which starts in august. Dish will..

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we had comcast for quite awhile as somebody said it got so high you pay out the butt for it we try direct but they didn't have phone service in our area so we went to fronteier and bundle dish and computer phone as brush stated if ya don't watch it can get costly with channel updates and service contracts we like it you have to have a really bad storm for it to go off my buddy got direct tv he don't get alot of channels that i get but he likes it ok

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Hillbilly ,i'm not sure how many channels we get 200 or so ,but the wife is always saying there is nothing to watch . I told well lets get Comcast with just the local channels , that put a whoa on nothing to watch ,lol

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Direct tv has a bunch of hidden fees. Your package will be 79.00 but your bill will be 125.00. They charge 5 for each tv. 10 for hd. 5 for each DVR. Some bogus processing fees. I changed to dish pay something like 45.00 a month less have all the channels I had except one of the kids channels. Have more sports channels. And they don't charge me extra for hd or extra boxes. I was with direct tv for 10 yrs and when I called to switch they offered to reduce my bill by 10 bucks a month. Said no thanks. Then they pulled my last months bill from my account 2 weeks early and with out telling me. Bounced checks and screwed my account up. I will never do business with them again.

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I have had dish network for a long time and not had any trouble with them.
once in a while during an extremely heavy downpour it will lose signal for a few minutes but its rare.

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Had dish for years. Decided that I had a better use for that 80.00. Dish and Direct are now owned by the same company so get out the Vaseline. Anyway we had it for 15 years and really don't remember an issue with it cutting out except when a doozy of a storm was comein from the west, then I had other stuff to watch.

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Do you have a link or anything where I can verify that? Everything I can find online says they are not owned by the same company.

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Had dish for years. Decided that I had a better use for that 80.00. Dish and Direct are now owned by the same company so get out the Vaseline. Anyway we had it for 15 years and really don't remember an issue with it cutting out except when a doozy of a storm was comein from the west, then I had other stuff to watch.

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It has to be a hard rain to interupt pic. wind is not a concern.

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At&t called me this week. Said they was running some kind of new wire my way. Said I could now get that at&t tv. Bundle it with home phone and internet for 160 a month and Id have over 300 channels. Im gonna look into it.

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We've had Direct TV Since November. A 12 month package at reduced rate. We can't change packages without paying back the savings we received. BUT, they E-Mail a month or two late that our bill will be going up 7%. And they took away THE WEATHER CHANNEL. They gave us some other weather channel that's worthless. Most of the Channels of the 250 we get are duplicates of another channel, advertising for products, same old movies (over & over again) or junk. We only watch about 1/4 of the channels on our package. We've had Dish also. Not much better. We change back & forth as contracts end to get new equipment & lower rates. Got to work them like they work you.
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