DircTV and Weather

[RLJSlick]

Who else DirecTV is out because of this storm?  I really like DirecTV but this !@#$ have to stop.:mad:

[Tom Snyder]

Heavy weather rolled through up here during dinner. First lost the HD channels, so switched to the SD version. But even the SD went out, but only out for a little bit. HD was out for several hours. Glad I still have my antennas. OTA never disappeared.

[troyriley]

Don't let the cable companies see this thread. They'll assume satellite goes out all the time. Then they will advertise that and pretend cable never goes out.

Dish Network only went out for a few minutes around 11 pm where I am. Like Tom, I flipped over to OTA. The program I was watching will be on again, so no problem.

[techboy]

On Monday afternoon between about 1pm and 6pm, TWC was out all over the north east side of Milwaukee county....Shorewood, Whitefish Bay, Glendale, Fox Point, River Hills.....All dead.  Sure glad I don't have my telephone service with them.  At least I was able to call TWC and find out the problem was there equipment and not mine.   Point is, from time to time, weather or equipment will take down all systems.

[Matt Heebner]

wow...I lost directv for only about 20 min total. I was watching the Brewers, and missed about 1/2 an inning on 669-1.

[gb4fan92]

wow...I lost directv for only about 20 min total. I was watching the Brewers, and missed about 1/2 an inning on 669-1.

same here !!

[techguy1975]

I've only used DirecTV, or a similar type system twice in my life..  Once, in a apartment complex I lived in, they ran their own private cable system, and several channels were delivered through direcTV.  Those stations would consistently go dark during storms.

More recently, when I was on vacation in Nashville this summer, I stayed at a Intown Suites, again, the cable tv system used DirecTV for delivery of channels.  We had a heavy rain storm one night, and most the channels were out till the storm cleared.  I cannot recall every losing my TWC cable service.  There have been a few times when I lost RoadRunner, most of those were very late in the evening/early morning and could of just been routine maintenance

[Stanley Kritzik]

In the North Shore Suburban area, I've had some minor rain-out and snow-out situations with DirecTV, such as a few wash-out minutes the other night.  Last wiinter, I had to visit my dish with a broom, too, a couple of times for some heavy snow.  Meanwhile, the OTA antenna delivered the local channels fine, so I have no major issue.

Others have reported some area-wide cable outages from time-to-time, and I've had a few Road Runner glitches, too.

My point is that no service provider is perfect, and while I'd be unhappy to miss something critical due to a rainstorm, for me, the outages have been infrequent and non-critical.  Take your pick, I guess, and look at other factors, too, such as programming, DVR quality, HD picture quality, etc.  All in all, I'm sticking with what I have.

Stan

[techguy1975]

As one whos worked for both a large ISP and cell phone provider, Murphy's Law definitely does apply.  No matter how well planed and redundant your network is, there will always bee some unforseen issue that will take place and cause a outage