Posted on 02/14/2016 1:06:53 PM PST by Cats Pajamas
Why????????????????????
Or try aiming the dish at Uranus.
Obviously, she should be subscribing to NASA, not DirectTV!
Urs!
Obscured by Trees? Otherwise not many things prevent satellite signals. Or heavy density of close proximity powerlines. Cannot image a site it is impossible unless nearby hill in the direction of satellite signal path. Microwave RF signals do not bend much.
They are using the same one from the time they took fake pictures of the Moon landing ... and the planting of the flag on Mars that SheJack witnessed.
My siblings cannot get internet because some very local politician signed a township wide cable contract, but the cable company won’t go down that road. I’m not talking about the sticks.
Maybe her issue is some politician who did not get his/her cut, not a tech problem.
Because URanus is ugly and full of gas.
Excellent! Is that your wife or mistress?
For a guy who just recently claimed on a Burt Reynolds thread that he was a dead ringer for this guy below, you sure must have one heck of a good pickup line!
You sister has a set of 120 foot $100 million dishes she collects satellite signals from? Didn’t think so.
The picture may be good, but it takes hours to receive one frame. With giant antennas.
She wants 30 of those frames per second. With a crappy tiny antenna.
NASA "satellite dish"
Any questions?
(BTW - "only the Deep Space Network's very largest, 70-meter dishes can detect New Horizons' faint signal."
"42 minutes to return one LORRI (Long Range Reconnaissance Imager) photo to Earth." [that's transmitting time for one still photo - the signal traves for almost 4.5 hours to get to earth])
The Pluto images are CGI.
Mis-aligned dish, obstruction, or bad cable or component.
If mis-aligned, she might get a signal in perfect weather, but have it fade in anything less;
Obstruction could come from trees, clouds with heavy moisture content, heavy rain or snow falling, leaf, snow or ice accumulation on the dish, or something blocking the LNB (the white plastic part on the arm that sits in front of the dish).
Cables, cable connectors, multiplexers, and/or the receiver itself could also introduce issues. These are usually (but not always) all-or-nothing problems, where either it’ll work or it won’t.
Tell her to call to cancel her service, saying she’s going to go to Dish, or to the local cable provider. They’ll do whatever it takes to retain her as a customer - usually including providing new equipment, and installing that equipment for free, AND reducing her monthly bill.
I have a friend in Central Fla. Has Direct TV internet.... Awful
Down most of the time. Call the Co., they put a trace and tell him the signal is excellent.
I know nothing about Satellite internet, but have read up on it.
Seems they stick you in a group w/ a finite amount of broadband.
Your fellow groupies may be using up all of it, leaving you in a lurch.
That isn’t the only answer though. When I was there it was the beginning of the month and unlikely that the limit had been reached.
I tried to help them recently when visiting them. Frustrating.
Sad part, it’s their only way other than dialup to connect.
Trees?
Dish knocked out of alignment?
Loose cable?
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