I have had my DirecTV service since October of last year, and, up until a couple weeks ago, only went out once. In the past two weeks, it has gone out twice, both during rainstorms. As of now, it is out and weather.com says we are having "Heavy Thunderstorms" in Southern CT. Should I be worried or is this something I'm going to have to live with? Thanks for your help!
DirecTV keeps going out
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Mike,
I would check your signal strength.
One a nice day, they should mostly all be in the high 80's and 90's , I say mostly, because you will have a few that will sit at 0 or very low on the Spot Beam sats because they are not serving your area.
I would check your signal strength.
One a nice day, they should mostly all be in the high 80's and 90's , I say mostly, because you will have a few that will sit at 0 or very low on the Spot Beam sats because they are not serving your area.
Did you do a realignment as suggested in your earlier thread?
http://www.satelliteguys.us/directv-forum/167306-signals-50s-60s.html
http://www.satelliteguys.us/directv-forum/167306-signals-50s-60s.html
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No, because the signals seemed to get better on their own. Anyway, most of the signals are good, but some are in the low 80s, eight are in the 70s, two in the 60s, and one in the 50s.
You still need to get your dish re-aligned. Those signals can be better.
The higher the values the more resistant you'll be to rain fade.
The higher the values the more resistant you'll be to rain fade.
DirecTV charged me $49.95+tx to have my dish relocated.
I doubt an alignment would be any more.
I also don't have the protection plan.
I doubt an alignment would be any more.
I also don't have the protection plan.
Heavy thunderstorms will cause signal loss on a perfectly aligned dish. As jdspencer said though, it'll happen less often if your dish is properly peaked.
There is a tab that says signal meters in the same screen where you read the signals for each transponder signal strength on each satellite(Bottom right. Try that, and post your signal strengths for each satellite.
There is a tab that says signal meters in the same screen where you read the signals for each transponder signal strength on each satellite(Bottom right. Try that, and post your signal strengths for each satellite.
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