[Shop-talk] Satellite Internet Service

[Bill Rabel]

I second the opinion of satellite TV vs. cable. I have never lost  
signal due to weather with my Dish Network service at my beach house.  
However, my cable service at home is undependable, mainly due to the  
cable box. It is a Motorola box with HD and DVR capability. It often  
crashes for no apparent reason, and takes five minutes or so to get  
back on line. It has frequently done this during recording, and I  
lose the program. I anticipate buying one of the new TiVo boxes that  
works on Comcast, since my experience with TiVo is that the box is  
more responsive and never screws up, and the controls and menu  
hierarchies are more logical.

- Bill Rabel
   Anacortes, WA

> we never got that outage with the sat. t.v. (or at least not like  
> the cable companies try to scare you with).  our land-line comcast  
> cable, on the other hand, goes out for any and every reason.  so  
> much so that the comcast will not be making the transition to the  
> new house, we're on to dsl and dish t.v.