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To: David Hillman <hillman@planet-torque.com>
Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] u-verse
From: David Scheidt <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:07:42 -0500
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:23 PM, David Hillman
<hillman@planet-torque.com>wrote:

> [ Tried to send this yesterday, but it was too long. ]
>
> On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, eric@megageek.com wrote:
>
>> First off, that ?20mb? you get is a shared pipe from Comcast.
>>
>
>   People say this to me everytime I tell them how fast it is.  Is it
> shared, yeah.  Do I care since I can never tell?  No.  Maybe no one else in
> my neighborhood has found the Internet yet, but for whatever reason, I get
> all the bandwidth I can consume ( which is a lot ) from Comcast.
>

Where cable companies have things right, it's quite fast.  (and no, his
connection needn't be shared.)  Where they don't, it's bad.

>
>  People that have problems losing signal during rain is because their dish
>> is not properly set up.  Many times, the installers just place the dish in
>> the ?easiest? location.  With a properly located dish, you will almost
>> NEVER lose signal.
>>
>
>   Interesting.  I don't see how dish location can avoid weather
> interference, unless you have a really effing tall chimney ;)  Around here
> anyway, weather tends to fill the whole sky.  I would be interested to know
> how to improve the setup of my dish, which I did myself ( 3 times ).
>  Initially I put it on the end wall of the garage ( this would be your
> 'easiest location' ).  Even though the DTV guy's hand-held meter showed
> signal there, it wouldn't work at all (tree interference).  I moved it above
> the garage for about 8 years, and then last year when we re-did the siding,
> to a less-visible spot on the rear of the roof.  In both spots, the signal
> drops out during all summer thunderstorms, some heavy snow, and occasional
> dense fog.  A few times sticky snow had me out in the driveway with a long
> implement brushing the dish clean... if this happens again with the new
> location, I'm screwed until it warms up and melts.
>
>
Dishes tend to be poorly aimed.  adjust until the signal is "good enough"
not adjust until it's as high as it can  be.  So a marginal signal will get
unusable in bad weather than a strong one.  Installers are also fond of
sticking dishes on poles as a handy way of clearing trees and the like.
Poles move in wind; and ddepending on the pole, it won't always end up at
the same place.

I don't remember where you are, but this matters more as you move north,
because there is longer signal path through atmosphere.



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David Scheidt
dmscheidt@gmail.com
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