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.
--
David Scheidt
dmscheidt@gmail.com
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