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Did anyone else experience this during the Florida International game?

We were already late ordering the game, because we waited until the last minute and ended up having to call to order..

And when, midway through the 1st quarter, the game finally came on.. 5 minutes later the game froze up on us, and we lost signal.

And then.. there was hope. The satellite signal slowly made "Progress".. and when it reached 5 out of 5, and the picture finally came back..

"Sorry, this channel is experiencing technical difficulties"

It was a sad time for us Tide fans, and we had a house full. Not to mention at the time they ran back a kickoff return to take the lead..

But all was well in the middle of the 2nd.

The game finally came back on.. and we all reunited by way of fist bump.

And the Tide rolled.
 
Swamptick said:
Dish network stinks.
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You know, in 15 years of retail and then going back to school, I moved a great deal. We lived in Piedmont, Anniston, Sylacauga, Tuscaloosa, Columbus MS., Caledonia MS., Grenada MS., Florence MS., Magee MS., Wilmore KY. (with a Parsonage in Waco KY).

We have had Charter, TCI, Comcast, Crown, Adelphia, Cox, Time Warner, DirectTV, and Dish Network. Until January when we left the church we were pastoring in Waco, we had both Dish Network and DirectTV at the same time (Dish at home and Direct at the parsonage).

Out of all of them, I can honestly say that Dish Network provides the best quality of customer service, equipment, pricing, and programming options - and it really isn't close to be honest. DirectTV was just "ok." We had Direct for around 5 years total. The equipment is much lower quality than Dish provides, and the customer service is pretty pathetic. I could tell you horror stories about receivers that would power off randomly and then take 10 minutes to aquire the signal again - and direct refusing to replace them. The receivers seemed to want to do it during the 4th quarter of close football games, and at the very end of Survivor episodes.

The worst overall would have to be Time Warner. I could tell you nightmarish stories about trying to order pay per view games with them, spending hours on the phone with tech support when I couldn't get the game, then getting a bill for the game even though I didn't receive it...cable internet that didn't work half the time and got 512k speed test ratings from toast.net even though I paid for 5 meg...repairmen sent out to diagnose terrible picture quality removing and trashing $50 low capacitance/induction monster coax cables and replacing them with their homemade cables because they saw a thin wire and thought "cheap," and then leaving without testing the picture (I wasn't home, my wife was).

I also sold Direct TV and Dish network for about 8 years (and Primestar before that, as well as C band systems), and at one point I managed the highest volume Digital Satellite retail store in the nation. Out of all the systems we sold, Direct TV gave us far and away the most customer service complaints after the sale. DIsh Network was "Fire and forget," while I sometimes wondered if the $50k per month we did in DirectTV sales was worth the headaches afterwards. Toward the end of my company's relationship with Direct, almost every single system we sold had after-sale issues and I spent hours each day dealing with them.

So when I see "Dish Network Stinks," I cringe a bit. There are probably very few people on the Earth who are more qualified to pass judgment on cable and sattelite providers than I am. Dish Network is not perfect, but it is easily the best thing out there.
 
It wasn't just Dish Network. Charter also couldn't get the game or at least not for the folks at my F-I-L's house or anyone else we called.

Ended up watching it online from the link Terry provided. Thanks TP!
 
BAMA JAMMA said:
It wasn't just Dish Network. Charter also couldn't get the game or at least not for the folks at my F-I-L's house or anyone else we called.

Ended up watching it online from the link Terry provided. Thanks TP!
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In all likelihood, there was a problem with one of the tin cans and string that Alabama Pay-per-view uses breaking,and losing transponders. Some feeds may have come off of different signals, or ESPN may have had their own uplink and Dish was using Alabama's uplink. I just don't know.
 
yea it did the same thing here, i called and they said it was on the PPV feed's in not their's and refused to refund us the money unless we just told them to take it off the bill completely but then we wouldnt get to see the rest of the game when the problem was sorted out so we just bit the bullet, it did come back early on in the 2nd tho.
 
Big_Fan said:
In all likelihood, there was a problem with one of the tin cans and string that Alabama Pay-per-view uses breaking,and losing transponders. Some feeds may have come off of different signals, or ESPN may have had their own uplink and Dish was using Alabama's uplink. I just don't know.
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As the author of the aforementioned "Damn you Dish Network" thread I have to agree that this really is the only incident that I have had with them. I think it may have been God's way of sparing us from some of the ugly in that game. Its all cool now and i certainly don't want cable because they don't have anyway near the channels Dish does.
 
bamaupsman said:
I don't have the dish because I like to watch tv when it rains.
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This is one of the biggest lies (or misconceptions) that ppl say about Dish. I used to have it for a cpl years and I don't recall it going out much at all and all I had heard was that when there is just a cloud in the sky it goes out. That's a bunch of crap to be honest. Only time it went out when we had it was if the power went out.
 
bamaupsman said:
I don't have the dish because I like to watch tv when it rains.
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My thoughts...

I can honestly say that my cable from every company I have had went out more than my dish does...especially when I had Time Warner - it was horrible. Direct was not quite as good as Dish in terms of "rain fade," however it rarely went out.

When dish or direct went out due to extreme weather, it was back on in minutes. With cable it could be out for hours if not days.

Last year we had a horrible ice storm here in KY. Power was out all over, but our side of the street had power and we never lost Dish. Cable was out for weeks in this area.

We lived in South MS in 2005. After Katrina, I my satellite worked immediately - it didn't lose alignment in 9 hours of 120+ mph winds. Cable was out in our neighborhood for weeks.

It never goes out in regular rain storms, and if the weather is severe enough to knock it out, I should probably unplug the TV because it is a severe storm.
 

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