… so far, Dish Network sucks. I haven’t seen the “no signal” symptom that the cable companies show you on their anti-satellite ads. But I’ve had some issues setting up HD service, which required one phone call and $0 back on cable, in Woonsocket. First we got delayed, due to some sale price not being offered until Feb 1st. I’m not sure if we actually got the sale price or not, since I haven’t seen the bill and it’s not in my name, but I won’t pretend to understand the way Dish bills us anyway. Then, when we finally did make the call, the installation was scheduled for 6 days later. On that day, the installation of a new box was charged to the account before the tech ever showed up. The tech did show up that day, though, and spent a good deal of time fiddling with the old box and setting up the new one and making sure the dish was pointed in the right direction to get the right satellites and such. Then he turned it on the HD Discovery channel, and left. When I attempted to change the channel to another HD channel. I got a black screen… several other channels were showing the same behavior. Some of them loaded, but it took 20-40 seconds, in most cases. A couple days later, the channels just weren’t there anymore… if I tried to turn to them by pushing in their channel numbers, it would load the next channel down that it did still have in the guide. So we called them up and they had me go through a bunch of diagnostic stuff on the box that led them to believe that some piece of hardware was bad. So we scheduled a tech to come out. That was supposed to happen today, but apparently, Dish techs are allergic to snow, so they just called and rescheduled to Friday. I hope they don’t expect us to pay for this week and a half of HD without getting more than half of the channels.
If I ever get the service, I’m sure I’ll be pleased with it, it seems like there are more HD channels than I had on cable, especially considering the local channels, but I can’t believe how much hassle and extra money this has taken, compared to one phone call and a minute or two wait time for the cable box to reset and Zero extra cash for installation or service.
I’m just ranting. Everything else is going really well. Work’s just starting to get rolling. I got some of those replacement parts for the Dell, but not enough to get started on it without giving up the use of the laptop until the rest come. We may be getting lots of snow dumped on us, but at least I’m inside for now… maybe some shoveling later… but, I’m and dry and comfortable and I think I’ll go eat a bagel and relax.
woot
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