Cable or Satellite???
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From: Heart Of Dixie
Cable or Satellite???
A feature that my step-son showed me last night on dish network (leave it to a kid to figgewr things out...LOL), There is a Dish Home that has local weather for your area, games to play, and a few other things. When I had dish a few years ago, these werent there. As for signal strength, We have about 125. We have no signal issues what so ever.
Laughing Gas
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Cable or Satellite???
I have directv. Only $0 a month. I went to our beloved neighbors (canada) and got a eprom programmer for $100. Now I get directv for free. Just $100 for the programmer. (and thats $100 candian!). Sssshhhhh. Don't tell anyone. I hate eminent domain....
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From: Lorain,Oh USA
Cable or Satellite???
Originally posted by AlabamaBronco
A feature that my step-son showed me last night on dish network (leave it to a kid to figgewr things out...LOL), There is a Dish Home that has local weather for your area, games to play, and a few other things. When I had dish a few years ago, these werent there. As for signal strength, We have about 125. We have no signal issues what so ever.
A feature that my step-son showed me last night on dish network (leave it to a kid to figgewr things out...LOL), There is a Dish Home that has local weather for your area, games to play, and a few other things. When I had dish a few years ago, these werent there. As for signal strength, We have about 125. We have no signal issues what so ever.
hey 'bama, you know you can also get your caller ID to disply on your TV screen? if you subscribe to your local phone service's caller ID option and your dishnetwork reciever is plugged into a phone jack(which it should be anyway), any incoming call will be displayed on your TV screen...........best of all, its free and your reciever is already set up for it.
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From: Calgary Canada
Cable or Satellite???
Wow, you really are a great friend, searching out a board dedicated to Ford trucks to bring your exceptional satelite value to us all.
Free publicity for about 5 mins till this thread is deleted anyway.
Waxy
P.S. I did make note of that phone number though, I'll be sure to pass it on to as many people as I possibly can.
Free publicity for about 5 mins till this thread is deleted anyway.
Waxy
P.S. I did make note of that phone number though, I'll be sure to pass it on to as many people as I possibly can.
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From: West Texas
Cable or Satellite???
we got dish network....the cable company round here kept going up and the quality kept getting worse. We went from $35 mo with cable and over three months got to $65....no change in service except that it got worse. No equipment to buy, better channel selection, better movies, more sports, no problems at all during heavy rain even....and all this for less than I paid for cable originally! best TV choice I ever made!
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From: Baileyton, TN
Cable or Satellite???
I had a dish for years, but then sold the RV the auto dish was mounted on, along with the receiver, so now I have cable, which has digital interference regularly, hangs quite often, and has very little worth watching on it. I think we probably will shoot the cable box, and get a dish.
Theo
Theo
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From: Montana Territory
Cable or Satellite???
We havve AT&T Digital Cable TV and Internet. I hate the price, $150 a month. However I get almost 500 channels. Also I literally get Lightning fast Internet, 100 MBPS downloads. I can get a 5 minute song in under a minute.
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Originally posted by mattsbox99
We havve AT&T Digital Cable TV and Internet. I hate the price, $150 a month. However I get almost 500 channels. Also I literally get Lightning fast Internet, 100 MBPS downloads. I can get a 5 minute song in under a minute.
We havve AT&T Digital Cable TV and Internet. I hate the price, $150 a month. However I get almost 500 channels. Also I literally get Lightning fast Internet, 100 MBPS downloads. I can get a 5 minute song in under a minute.
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From: Montana Territory
Cable or Satellite???
I know that average PC's can't handle that kind of saturation. I can't get past about 17 MBPS in saturation. I have about 2 GB of memory. I have a 200 GB 10,400 RPM HD. Along with 3.06 GHz processor its pretty quick. Not that I really need all that stuff, it sure is quick, and I didn't want stuff that was going to be obsolete tomorrow. This is an Alien computer, built for gamers, by gamers. http://www.alienware.com
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My son builds systems that are equal or better than the Alienware setups. His are all custom units tho with large RAID arrays etc. built for gamer friends. He plays CS all the time along with many other games. He is at a LAN party tonight. Most of those Alienware setups are "obsolete" because they have to be developed, purchase contracts let, advertised, ordered, and built. Not that yours isn't top of the line tho 
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From: Montana Territory
Cable or Satellite???
That was the old alienware. Now they have them sent out within the week. Check out there website. I got mine right after they switched. It was definetly not cheap, generic PC's are good for 99% of people. I don't even use most of its amazing capabilities. It probably laughs when I host a 32 player LAN party for Diablo 2.
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Cable or Satellite???
I'm using rabbit ears. I get the big three networks along with Fox and PBS. Most of the time I'm listening to the radio anyway. My Internet is DSL -- cable Internet wasn't available at the time.
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From: Conyers,Ga.
Cable or Satellite???
We have cable in our town house and Direct TV in our farm house. I guess our cable company is one of a kind. No problems. We only have basic service. No movie channels. Its only 35 a month. With Direct TV we have expanded basic its 42 a month. They both work well but I noticed in stormy weather the sattelite doesn't have the quality picture of cable.