Direct TV...dish, received, and eye compatibility.

[IXLR8]

If you get an over the air or OTA antenna you can still get all those channels free. It turns digital into analog for your TV as before. I'm sure you've heard of this.

The digital signal has a higher base frequency and therefore a MUCH shorter range.... it does not make it to my location. No amount of antenna will be able to pick up a nonexistant signal so digital converter boxes are useless. For TV it's only cable or satellite for us. Presently have TWC, 10meg internet, 250 channels of which we only watch about 15, two HD boxes, no movie channels, no DVR, no phone-- $155/month. There has to be a cheaper way, Dish is starting to look tempting.

 

[Midniteoyl]

I live ~1350' off the state route down the "township road". The state route has TWC lines.

My parents are the next house...bout 2000'. There is one house closer.....and two across the road. All wish for TWC....That would be 5 houses in less than 1/2 mile.

TWC just wont do it. And I inquired what it would cost if I were to pay for part of the install to get it to me........$19,500 just to TEE in and bring it to me 1350' away.

I had TWC at my old house. My house was located 250' off the road. I wonder how they were able to install that for free.....using the above it should have cost over $3500

Pretty much exactly my situation with Mediacom.. 150mbps speeds available 1.1km away but they refuse to come down and service my road with 5 people, or the road around the corner and service another 20+. Since the laws changed a few years back, cable providers are not required to cover everyone with in a certain area and can leave whole downtown blocks unserved in major cities if they so desire.

As for the costs involed, its much more than simply running cable. They will most likely need to put in a new Node (access point), along with pole hanging rental fees, permits, taxes, inspections fees, licenses, etc, etc.. it all adds up. THEN they put a little on the top just so you will go away when you see the price

 

[dmccarty]

I live ~1350' off the state route down the "township road". The state route has TWC lines.

My parents are the next house...bout 2000'. There is one house closer.....and two across the road. All wish for TWC....That would be 5 houses in less than 1/2 mile.

TWC just wont do it. And I inquired what it would cost if I were to pay for part of the install to get it to me........$19,500 just to TEE in and bring it to me 1350' away.

I had TWC at my old house. My house was located 250' off the road. I wonder how they were able to install that for free.....using the above it should have cost over $3500

We have a similar situation with TWC as well. Cable is on the state road in front of us but TWC will not bring the cable down a road that has 25 house on two miles. We have called and asked, gotten a petition to get TWC or faster Century Link service, AND had neighbors call in asked. Nothing but crickets. There are also a couple fiber optic lines on the same road. Faster access is right close by but it is all unubtanium.

Later,
Dan

 

[PILOON]

I learned from a shop that all dishes and amps are compatible.
The local repair shop tests all brands on all networks with same ant.

The dishes and amps have wide enough bandwidth to cover a fair range, after all they all use the same satellites but simply own (use) different frequencies but all are very close.

Heck I went from Direct TY to Bell Expressview and the Bell installer said I would not get signal so I insisted he use the DTV installation and now 3 years later I only lose signal during heavy snow or thunderstorms. (ie perhaps once a month and at that not for long.)
Also love PVR to bypass commercials, nothing like fast fwd!

Thank god for wireless controls, remember when we had to go to TV to even change a channel? and a long cable to use recorder features?

WE learned that waxing the dish was a great way to minimize ice and snow accumulations. Some folks even use a large plastic bag to wrap the dish as snow sleet etc sticks much less.
Our local cable network aims heat lamps at all their dishes to avoid snow build up.

 

[jack707]

I learned from a shop that all dishes and amps are compatible.
The local repair shop tests all brands on all networks with same ant.

The dishes and amps have wide enough bandwidth to cover a fair range, after all they all use the same satellites but simply own (use) different frequencies but all are very close.

Heck I went from Direct TY to Bell Expressview and the Bell installer said I would not get signal so I insisted he use the DTV installation and now 3 years later I only lose signal during heavy snow or thunderstorms. (ie perhaps once a month and at that not for long.)
Also love PVR to bypass commercials, nothing like fast fwd!

Thank god for wireless controls, remember when we had to go to TV to even change a channel? and a long cable to use recorder features?

Yeah people used to be thinner to back then!

 

[IXLR8]

We have a similar situation with TWC as well. Cable is on the state road in front of us but TWC will not bring the cable down a road that has 25 house on two miles. We have called and asked, gotten a petition to get TWC or faster Century Link service, AND had neighbors call in asked. Nothing but crickets. There are also a couple fiber optic lines on the same road. Faster access is right close by but it is all unubtanium.

Later,
Dan

My neighbors went thru the same thing with TWC for years, even having TWC do full hookup evaluations several times. TWC kept telling them they didn't meet the density criteria. When I moved into the neighborhood I asked TWC to put in writing what the density criteria was, apparently nobody else had asked. The note I received indicated their criteria was 21 homes/mile, we had 7 homes in 1/4 mile. I explained to TWC that per their criteria we should be getting service. They did another hookup evaluation and installed service to my home about 1 month later and everybody else within a week.

 

[LD1]

My neighbors went thru the same thing with TWC for years, even having TWC do full hookup evaluations several times. TWC kept telling them they didn't meet the density criteria. When I moved into the neighborhood I asked TWC to put in writing what the density criteria was, apparently nobody else had asked. The note I received indicated their criteria was 21 homes/mile, we had 7 homes in 1/4 mile. I explained to TWC that per their criteria we should be getting service. They did another hookup evaluation and installed service to my home about 1 month later and everybody else within a week.

Maybe I should try calling them and asking for the density criteria in writing??? I never asked for it in writing, but they verbally said 50 houses per mile.

We would be close to the 21/mile. (there are 17 houses in the first mile down my road). But the issue is the first house is 1000ft off the main road. I am the second. But after that first 1000'.....the next ~3/4 mile (3500'), there are 17 houses. And within this stretch of 17 houses.....there is another road that TEE's in (also dont have TWC). And going 1/2 mile up that road, there are 16 houses. Beyond a mile down my road, or beyond 1/2 mile down the TEE road, it really thins out. But with 1-1/2 mile.....there are 17+16=33 houses.