Dish Network

[Roadhawg]

Anybody else having problems with Dish? Mine says complete signal loss. Good luck getting through to support... line has been busy and I'm number 1200 on the chat que lol

[WilliamTell]

Signal lost here in choctaw. Using antenna.

[MDot]

My mom's boyfriend lost his as well. Wonder what the deal is.

[Roadhawg]

ok... glad to know it's not just me... good chance to watch some of the stuff I put on DVR

[Thunder]

One solution.

Cox Communication

[Tydude]

One solution.

Cox Communication

Thunder there are some people who can't get cable if they lived in a country

[Tydude]

One solution.

Cox Communication

Thunder some people can't get cable if there lived in the country or a small town in Oklahoma

[ctchandler]

I live one mile East of I-35 around Hefner and Cox is not available.
C. T.

[venture]

One solution.

Cox Communication

As others have said...many don't have the choice of Cox. I personally have DirecTV after giving Cox a try twice...never going back. I do have Cox for internet, but it is a business line and I refuse to go to DSL.

[Thunder]

As others have said...many don't have the choice of Cox. I personally have DirecTV after giving Cox a try twice...never going back. I do have Cox for internet, but it is a business line and I refuse to go to DSL.

DirecTV is another solution. :-D

[WilliamTell]

One solution.

Cox Communication

HAHAHAHAHA.

I've had cox for the majority of my life and never again. I've also had uverse for a period of time and although its better the customer service in east india was infuriating regardless of how many 20 dollar gift cards they offered me. For the last two years we've had dish and besides today i think we've lost service for 5-10 minutes 3 times and it was always during spring storm season. I'll give them a grace period, its not the end of the world. But if this goes on for a few days with out an automatic credit then they might fall from grace in my eyes.

[FRISKY]

Dish says satellite 129 is down since 3pm, but you should be able to pick up SD signals from satellites 110 and 119. (Some of the same channels as 129, but standard def only...not HD.)

They also said it "might" be fixed around 11:00pm.

[venture]

Hmm satellite stops working? Maybe there is another cause instead of programming...

[Thunder]

I am going to have to agree with Venture. This could possibly mean something is going on in Space.

Btw, how to they fix satellites? Are they able to go up into space at anytime and quickly? I know NASA take forever to launch and when they launch, its like a big deal. But, just wondering about all the other launches that we never know about.

[MikeOKC]

I am going to have to agree with Venture. This could possibly mean something is going on in Space.

Btw, how to they fix satellites? Are they able to go up into space at anytime and quickly? I know NASA take forever to launch and when they launch, its like a big deal. But, just wondering about all the other launches that we never know about.

For manned missions, there's now only two active launching programs: Soyuz and Shenzhou. A damned shame, too.

[venture]

I am going to have to agree with Venture. This could possibly mean something is going on in Space.

Oh I should have known better. LOL It was a joke Thunder.

Btw, how to they fix satellites? Are they able to go up into space at anytime and quickly? I know NASA take forever to launch and when they launch, its like a big deal. But, just wondering about all the other launches that we never know about.

They will likely fix it through programmers on the ground. If the satellite stops working, they have to launch another or use someone else. NASA does, and assists with, many unmanned launches that happen pretty frequently. As far manned though...Mike hit it on the nose. The US is no longer able to send a man into space right now.

[FRISKY]

I am going to have to agree with Venture. This could possibly mean something is going on in Space.

Amateur astronomers spotted a small UFO close to satellite 129 just before it went down...

The government has since issued a statement that one of their weather balloons got loose and accidently "bumped" satellite 129.

[Jim Kyle]

Btw, how to they fix satellites? Are they able to go up into space at anytime and quickly? I know NASA take forever to launch and when they launch, its like a big deal. But, just wondering about all the other launches that we never know about.

Depends on how high up they are. They've fixed Hubble a couple of times. However, the TV satellites are in "geosynchronous" orbit, meaning that they stay essentially parked right over the same spot all the time. That's necessary so that we know where they are to point our dishes at them. To get that to happen, they have to be almost exactly 23,300 miles above the earth. That's far too high for anything like a shuttle or Soyuz to reach. No fix for them is possible; just replace when you run out of spare channels to use.

[Thunder]

So, why is it that we have daily launches into space that is controlled by computers and robots, but can't send a man up there? What is up with that? Astronauts make so much money that it causes great hardship on budget or something?

[MikeOKC]

Can't sleep. Saw this story from CNN about DISH:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/14/tech/g...html?hpt=hp_t2

[Thunder]

Mikey, that is 14 million angry customers. The aftermath really showed the severity of Americans' problem with obesity and poor health. Watching televisions seem to be their whole life and without it, they panic in a record-breaking way that cockroaches can never beat with the brightest light bulb. I bet 99% of them will demand a full month refund/credit. We could say that this fortunately happened after Ms. Universe sensation or else the entire pageant could have came to a screeching halt.

[Just the facts]

Mikey, that is 14 million angry customers. The aftermath really showed the severity of Americans' problem with obesity and poor health. Watching televisions seem to be their whole life and without it, they panic in a record-breaking way that cockroaches can never beat with the brightest light bulb. I bet 99% of them will demand a full month refund/credit. We could say that this fortunately happened after Ms. Universe sensation or else the entire pageant could have came to a screeching halt.

It just goes to show that if someone talks long enough they will say something I agree with. There is a reason TVs cost a thousand dollars and people pay over $100 month to watch it.

[HewenttoJared]

[Martin]

+1 internets to you, good sir. -M

[FRISKY]

It seems satellite 129 was in synchronous orbit directly over area-51 when the UFO took it out. Coincidence?