the point is that they do forget to mention this in their brochures and ads.
Well -ve points never get mentioned with any service provider by default. Even if they do it'll be in a corner in small font. Rain outage is common for Ku/Ka band transmissions and hence DTH will suffer because of that. As somebody pointed out the downtime is very little compared to our cable operators in a year in most of the places in India except the regions where rainfall is maximum.
There is mention about the rain outage in Dish TV website in FAQs and it says its a temporary phenomenon. Don't know about the info in TSky website. But we being the people breathe the Internet need to find about the info before making the purchase compared to most of the population rather than expecting something from the service providers. There could be chances somebody in the world would have got a solution as well. We guys needs to find if that is the case so that some of our friends here can benefit from it.
In bangalore it rains moderate to heavy during every monsoon season. But in the last two months I have seen only once my TV going blank saying signal not found. When I checked the singal strength/quality it was 25%/30%. I did a reboot and it started working and the signal strength got a little better at 45%/50%. Not sure the same strategy can work in future as we have not seen a heavy rain lately and its been a scattered rainfall only.
Not sure this can be resolved by putting the Dish under a sunshade with clear visiblity to sky and protected from direct rain by a someway. Also I don't know whether its because of rainfall the signal gets faded before reaching the dish or since the rain falls on the dish and LNB we get this problem.
Fellow boarders, comeout with your suggestions so we can try to help the people who often get blackouts no matter Dish TV or TSky.
signal on my zee dth box is around that region all the freaking time. when i complained the zee people said that the value is good enough to get regular cable feed.
yet with no rains i get frequent seconds long time out. some channels act like they are running on poor quality dvd rip.
I think you need to re-position the Dish slightly. In normal conditions the Signal strength should be 75% and quality should be around 80%. Only during rain it should get below this level.
Well -ve points never get mentioned with any service provider by default. Even if they do it'll be in a corner in small font. Rain outage is common for Ku/Ka band transmissions and hence DTH will suffer because of that. As somebody pointed out the downtime is very little compared to our cable operators in a year in most of the places in India except the regions where rainfall is maximum.
There is mention about the rain outage in Dish TV website in FAQs and it says its a temporary phenomenon. Don't know about the info in TSky website. But we being the people breathe the Internet need to find about the info before making the purchase compared to most of the population rather than expecting something from the service providers. There could be chances somebody in the world would have got a solution as well. We guys needs to find if that is the case so that some of our friends here can benefit from it.
In bangalore it rains moderate to heavy during every monsoon season. But in the last two months I have seen only once my TV going blank saying signal not found. When I checked the singal strength/quality it was 25%/30%. I did a reboot and it started working and the signal strength got a little better at 45%/50%. Not sure the same strategy can work in future as we have not seen a heavy rain lately and its been a scattered rainfall only.
Not sure this can be resolved by putting the Dish under a sunshade with clear visiblity to sky and protected from direct rain by a someway. Also I don't know whether its because of rainfall the signal gets faded before reaching the dish or since the rain falls on the dish and LNB we get this problem.
Fellow boarders, comeout with your suggestions so we can try to help the people who often get blackouts no matter Dish TV or TSky.
signal on my zee dth box is around that region all the freaking time. when i complained the zee people said that the value is good enough to get regular cable feed.
yet with no rains i get frequent seconds long time out. some channels act like they are running on poor quality dvd rip.
I think you need to re-position the Dish slightly. In normal conditions the Signal strength should be 75% and quality should be around 80%. Only during rain it should get below this level.
