The cold is messing up my DirecTV
Jan. 16th, 2009 10:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
carbonelAt least, that's the only conclusion I've come to.
Remember a week or two ago when we had several inches of snow, then a cold snap? The snow caused a bit of fuzz on my TV picture -- annoying, but I'm used to it. The next day, though, when the temperature dropped to -17 or so, my local channels didn't come in DirecTV at all. All the others did, but not the locals -- which is particularly annoying, since about 90% of my TV watching is on the local network channels.
Two days and a reboot later (there had been several other reboots that didn't help in the interim), the local channels were back.
Now, during the current cold snap, my local channels have gone away again. If they come back when it warms up again, I'm going to count that as a confirmed theory, even though there are only two data points. Not that it gives me any idea what to do about it, or why the cold is doing that, or why it's only the local channels.
In the meantime, I don't suppose putting a space heater on my roof near the satellite dish would be a good idea, on several counts -- not the least of which is that I don't own.
Anyone have any other suggestions? Other than Bittorrent, that is, which is my current workaround.
Remember a week or two ago when we had several inches of snow, then a cold snap? The snow caused a bit of fuzz on my TV picture -- annoying, but I'm used to it. The next day, though, when the temperature dropped to -17 or so, my local channels didn't come in DirecTV at all. All the others did, but not the locals -- which is particularly annoying, since about 90% of my TV watching is on the local network channels.
Two days and a reboot later (there had been several other reboots that didn't help in the interim), the local channels were back.
Now, during the current cold snap, my local channels have gone away again. If they come back when it warms up again, I'm going to count that as a confirmed theory, even though there are only two data points. Not that it gives me any idea what to do about it, or why the cold is doing that, or why it's only the local channels.
In the meantime, I don't suppose putting a space heater on my roof near the satellite dish would be a good idea, on several counts -- not the least of which is that I don't own.
Anyone have any other suggestions? Other than Bittorrent, that is, which is my current workaround.
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Date: 2009-01-16 08:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-16 08:17 pm (UTC)Maybe, but why is it the cold that affects it? It really seems to be cold rather than snow that's the problem.
And yes, I've had good service from DTV as well. If the service hadn't come back last time, they would have sent a service tech. Maybe I should have done that.
And now the issue is moot, since the floor guys have disconnected everything but the DVR, so I won't be able to check until the floor is done. When all is said and done, floor trumps TV.