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Re: Cable or Satellite?
« Reply #50 on: September 07, 2012, 07:21:53 PM »
You can't find the 10 or 15 foot diameter dishes anymore.

Well, you probably could at a salvage yard. But they won't work.

What do you think the cable TV companies use? They use the 3 meter dishes. (or a combination dish, which is even larger) You just need to know where to buy them and the LNbs from.
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Re: Cable or Satellite?
« Reply #51 on: September 07, 2012, 07:44:22 PM »
What do you think the cable TV companies use? They use the 3 meter dishes. (or a combination dish, which is even larger) You just need to know where to buy them and the LNbs from.

I use a 3 meter dish for my dinner.  O-)

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« Reply #52 on: September 07, 2012, 07:44:58 PM »
We stuck with Cox and went with the advanced TV and the next level up on internet speed since we use it so much through different devices... at the same time.
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Re: Cable or Satellite?
« Reply #53 on: September 08, 2012, 12:37:13 AM »
What do you think the cable TV companies use? They use the 3 meter dishes. (or a combination dish, which is even larger) You just need to know where to buy them and the LNbs from.

I was referring to personal use now. Not commercial.

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Re: Cable or Satellite?
« Reply #54 on: September 08, 2012, 01:15:50 PM »
I was referring to personal use now. Not commercial.

Many companies sell to normal average people, not just companies. It's more a matter of knowing WHERE to obtain these things than being some commercial entity.
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« Reply #55 on: September 08, 2012, 01:38:50 PM »
We have Directv. We live in the middle of no-where and the issues we have is they always find a way to raise the bill.  $60 month. We no longer buy pay per view movies since they come on TV  at some point. We complain and they reduce the bill then give us the free movie channels. For us the movies are crap, they replay the same ones over and over. Now at first when we got the free HBO.MAX all of them it was nice for me because I hadn't seen most of the movies for years and hadn't seen the others. Then after  a couple of months I didn't even watch.

Our signal goes in and out during snow. Customer support is iffy some times. We called to cancel the movie channels and the guy at Directv told my hubby we couldn't until the final day of the offer. 

I have Wild Blue for the net. Others in town have Hughes and they complain. Some days the signal is down for a couple of hours with Hughes. Most on Hughes have had to get new modems.  I think they are about the same price as Wild Blue I have the middle package  69$ a month. I do have bandwidth issues and don't like Wild Blue if you go over you get penalized for 30 days with slower than dial up speed.  I used to have the faster speed, but just cannot afford it anymore.

No way cable will ever be up here.  I have a friend who has Comcast and he  is happy with it.


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Re: Cable or Satellite?
« Reply #56 on: September 08, 2012, 02:07:39 PM »
Many companies sell to normal average people, not just companies. It's more a matter of knowing WHERE to obtain these things than being some commercial entity.

That might be the case, but I looked all over the net can't find a single cable provider that still offers them for residential entities. Unless there never was a provider?

Edit: Ok. I finally found something. Skyvision still offers them -> http://skyvision.com

I thought they went out long ago, I guess I was wrong.
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Re: Cable or Satellite?
« Reply #57 on: September 08, 2012, 07:35:51 PM »
We have Directv. We live in the middle of no-where and the issues we have is they always find a way to raise the bill.  $60 month. We no longer buy pay per view movies since they come on TV  at some point. We complain and they reduce the bill then give us the free movie channels. For us the movies are crap, they replay the same ones over and over. Now at first when we got the free HBO.MAX all of them it was nice for me because I hadn't seen most of the movies for years and hadn't seen the others. Then after  a couple of months I didn't even watch.

Our signal goes in and out during snow. Customer support is iffy some times. We called to cancel the movie channels and the guy at Directv told my hubby we couldn't until the final day of the offer. 

I have Wild Blue for the net. Others in town have Hughes and they complain. Some days the signal is down for a couple of hours with Hughes. Most on Hughes have had to get new modems.  I think they are about the same price as Wild Blue I have the middle package  69$ a month. I do have bandwidth issues and don't like Wild Blue if you go over you get penalized for 30 days with slower than dial up speed.  I used to have the faster speed, but just cannot afford it anymore.

No way cable will ever be up here.  I have a friend who has Comcast and he  is happy with it.

They do make dish heaters to keep the snow off of the dish.

I had Comcast when I was up in MN. They sucked. TV was OK, but their cable tv system had phone internet problems. I guess service & technical abilities vary by areas. I had to troubleshoot their system and get in touch with the tech manager, yell at him a few times before they got my internet & phone properly working. Their entire return path was all messed up and the techs couldn't seem to figure it out. I was less than impressed, especially since I spoke with the tech and he had like 15+ years "experience" with cable TV.  ::)
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Re: Cable or Satellite?
« Reply #58 on: September 08, 2012, 07:42:39 PM »
They do make heaters that go on the dish to melt the snow. We were always getting calls, in the winter, from customers wanting us to send a tech out to clear the sow off of them. Unless the customer was an elderly person, or a disabled person, and couldn't find anyone to do it for them; We would usually tell them that we don't do that, and if they want to combat it, get a dish heater.

Here is an example of what they look like...

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Re: Cable or Satellite?
« Reply #59 on: September 08, 2012, 08:15:42 PM »
They do make heaters that go on the dish to melt the snow. We were always getting calls, in the winter, from customers wanting us to send a tech out to clear the sow off of them. Unless the customer was an elderly person, or a disabled person, and couldn't find anyone to do it for them; We would usually tell them that we don't do that, and if they want to combat it, get a dish heater.

Here is an example of what they look like...



How did the pig get on the roof?

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Re: Cable or Satellite?
« Reply #60 on: September 09, 2012, 12:08:54 PM »
How did the pig get on the roof?

I meant SNOW. Thanks for pointing that out ..  :-)

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« Reply #61 on: September 09, 2012, 03:00:57 PM »
They do make dish heaters to keep the snow off of the dish.

I had Comcast when I was up in MN. They sucked. TV was OK, but their cable tv system had phone internet problems. I guess service & technical abilities vary by areas. I had to troubleshoot their system and get in touch with the tech manager, yell at him a few times before they got my internet & phone properly working. Their entire return path was all messed up and the techs couldn't seem to figure it out. I was less than impressed, especially since I spoke with the tech and he had like 15+ years "experience" with cable TV.  ::)

Our DTV dish is under its own roof so the snow doesn't get on it..yet when the snow slides off the roof of the house it slides over the dish and we have to open the kitchen window and know it down with a broom handle. My Wild Blue dish I spray silicone or Pam on it right at the beginning of winter. That helps. I also shovel to the dish every year so I can knock of the snow if necessary.


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Re: Cable or Satellite?
« Reply #62 on: September 09, 2012, 03:19:48 PM »
Our DTV dish is under its own roof so the snow doesn't get on it..yet when the snow slides off the roof of the house it slides over the dish and we have to open the kitchen window and know it down with a broom handle. My Wild Blue dish I spray silicone or Pam on it right at the beginning of winter. That helps. I also shovel to the dish every year so I can knock of the snow if necessary.

Or you could move somewhere that snow don't go.

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Re: Cable or Satellite?
« Reply #63 on: September 09, 2012, 04:14:52 PM »
Our DTV dish is under its own roof so the snow doesn't get on it..yet when the snow slides off the roof of the house it slides over the dish and we have to open the kitchen window and know it down with a broom handle. My Wild Blue dish I spray silicone or Pam on it right at the beginning of winter. That helps. I also shovel to the dish every year so I can knock of the snow if necessary.

We recommended not to spray pam or silicone on the because it will make depree stick them and cause more problems then are worth.

They also make snow covers for them. But the draw back with those is that if too much ended on up on it, it would sag and block the beam.

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« Reply #64 on: September 09, 2012, 04:32:48 PM »
Get a product like WX2100 for snow, ice and water build up on a dish.
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Re: Cable or Satellite?
« Reply #65 on: September 10, 2012, 03:41:05 AM »
They do make heaters that go on the dish to melt the snow. We were always getting calls, in the winter, from customers wanting us to send a tech out to clear the sow off of them. Unless the customer was an elderly person, or a disabled person, and couldn't find anyone to do it for them; We would usually tell them that we don't do that, and if they want to combat it, get a dish heater.

Here is an example of what they look like...



When I lived in the Midwest we never had an issue with snow on the dish. It must of slid off. The dish was on the roof and we never had an outage.

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Re: Cable or Satellite?
« Reply #66 on: September 10, 2012, 07:57:34 AM »
When I lived in the Midwest we never had an issue with snow on the dish. It must of slid off. The dish was on the roof and we never had an outage.

That is good to know. A lot of it has to do with kind it is - Wet snow is more likely to stick than dry snow, if you know what I mean.

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« Reply #67 on: September 10, 2012, 08:42:46 AM »
Neither.  I cut those ties last year and I feel great!  I have netflix for $8.73 a month and it does everything we need.  I was paying well over $60 a month for direct tv and didn't even watch it.  I took the Dave Ramsey course and that part stuck.






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« Reply #68 on: September 10, 2012, 10:43:17 AM »
Neither.  I cut those ties last year and I feel great!  I have netflix for $8.73 a month and it does everything we need.  I was paying well over $60 a month for direct tv and didn't even watch it.  I took the Dave Ramsey course and that part stuck.

I been reading Dave Ramsey for a couple of years and refuse to get rid of my Directv. I agree with a lot of what he says, but my Directv, Gadgets, and internet are three things I will never get rid of.

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« Reply #69 on: September 10, 2012, 10:45:49 AM »
I been reading Dave Ramsey for a couple of years and refuse to get rid of my Directv. I agree with a lot of what he says, but my Directv, Gadgets, and internet are three things I will never get rid of.
You better not be charging that stuff to your credit card.
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« Reply #70 on: September 10, 2012, 10:49:16 AM »
I been reading Dave Ramsey for a couple of years and refuse to get rid of my Directv. I agree with a lot of what he says, but my Directv, Gadgets, and internet are three things I will never get rid of.

and they is why you will be poor  :tongue:






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« Reply #71 on: September 10, 2012, 10:51:48 AM »
Neither.  I cut those ties last year and I feel great!  I have netflix for $8.73 a month and it does everything we need.  I was paying well over $60 a month for direct tv and didn't even watch it.  I took the Dave Ramsey course and that part stuck.

My wife and I pitched Dish Network (we were getting the "Deluxe" package just so we could get the 6 channels we actually watched) about 4 years ago. We watch movies on demand now, and get news and info from the radio and internet. And you know what? We discovered this thing we had all along and never even realized it: a family!  Did you know that those things were pretty damned entertaining??? :hi5:
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« Reply #72 on: September 10, 2012, 10:54:15 AM »
You better not be charging that stuff to your credit card.

I only ever had one credit card. After reading and listening to Dave, I cut it up and canceled it. I do everything with cash now - Well everything with in cash means anyhow. I feel the only things you should finance is a house and car. Anything else? Save up for it because that gives you time to think about it and decide if you really want it or not.

In all seriousness. If I was saving up for something, I would probably end up putting the money into a mutual fund, ETF, Annunity or something else that made me money back. Of course I wouldn't put it into a CD or Money Market account, as they are both rip offs.


and they is why you will be poor  :tongue:

The only bills I have are house and basic utilities. The extras are my Directv and my cell phone. My car is paid for. Everything in my house, I paid cash for. I didn't finance any of it  :-)

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« Reply #73 on: September 10, 2012, 11:12:57 AM »
My wife and I pitched Dish Network (we were getting the "Deluxe" package just so we could get the 6 channels we actually watched) about 4 years ago. We watch movies on demand now, and get news and info from the radio and internet. And you know what? We discovered this thing we had all along and never even realized it: a family!  Did you know that those things were pretty damned entertaining??? :hi5:

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« Reply #74 on: September 10, 2012, 11:38:14 AM »
My wife and I pitched Dish Network (we were getting the "Deluxe" package just so we could get the 6 channels we actually watched) about 4 years ago. We watch movies on demand now, and get news and info from the radio and internet. And you know what? We discovered this thing we had all along and never even realized it: a family!  Did you know that those things were pretty damned entertaining??? :hi5:

I went for years in Illinois without paying for TV. I tried doing the same in Nevada and lasted two years. It's difficult to even get the network stations without a dish or cable. The signals are bounced over the mountain from Las Vegas using UHF. The signal sucks unless the weather is just right. A couple of the stations are now using HD, but once you get the station dialed in, you can't watch any other channel.  :hammer:

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