Well, I’ve had DirecTV for several years now, and true, I’ve experienced ‘Rain Fade’ on occasion, but it hasn’t happened so often or slast very long, that i wasn’t so disturbed at dealing with only local broadcast or watching.surfing on the Internet. With Weatherbug, I can allways check to see the size, speed and direction the storm is moving, and can approximate how long before I get satellite feed back/ We do get some serious winter storms that rooll though my area, and haven’t had it affect the DirecTV service very much either. I have had cable TV before in my lifr, and when *that* goes down, it goes down for hours, if not days. DirecTV I don’t think has ever gone out for me, for over a half hour...and usually for only a 5-10-15 minute period, during the densest part of the storms.
Agh well, who knows? A whle back I used to complain about several issues I had with DirecTV, and surpisingly, most of the issues I had with them havd been addressed...Perhaps they cough up with at least increadioing the guide to 6 days, so that I can check out a programs *next* show, without needing new hardware. I mean it’s not like the guide isn’t there...it’s just not coming over for the basic receivers. Perhaps they went cheap on the RAM in the boxes, and that’s why it only dislays two crummy day...
I live in N. CA. I only had rain fade a couple of times, in about 12 years, even in very heavy downpours.
If you are getting lots of fade, it means your dish needs better alignment, or it might be a cabling problem.
Winds on roof tops are amazingly powerful and will foul up a dish unless it is very strongly secured. This can happen over time.