Rain fade? I've had DirecTV since 1997 in two houses-- one in Florida (installed myself) and one in Chicago (DirecTV installed). I get rain fade maybe once every six weeks, and then for 1-2 minutes maximum. We just had a record-setting winter in Chicago and I think I had fade maybe twice all winter.
I have several neighbors who use Dish and they're all happy as well.
In contrast, I've got two neighbors who have Comcast. One has a Comcast truck outside his house every two weeks with problems. The other loved Comcast at first (switched from Dish) as he loved VOD, but now is saying that he's going back to satellite as he says that the VOD stuff rarely changes and his cable goes out weekly for hours at a time.
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Rain fade? I've had DirecTV since 1997 in two houses-- one in Florida (installed myself) and one in Chicago (DirecTV installed). I get rain fade maybe once every six weeks, and then for 1-2 minutes maximum. We just had a record-setting winter in Chicago and I think I had fade maybe twice all winter.
I have several neighbors who use Dish and they're all happy as well.
In contrast, I've got two neighbors who have Comcast. One has a Comcast truck outside his house every two weeks with problems. The other loved Comcast at first (switched from Dish) as he loved VOD, but now is saying that he's going back to satellite as he says that the VOD stuff rarely changes and his cable goes out weekly for hours at a time.