🚀 go-pugleaf

> > * Whenever it would rain the cable would go out. I never called them on
this
> > one but I assume their boxes got flooded out and it shorted out their
> > signal. It's interesting that they tout 'rain fade' was one of the
things
> > you don't have to worry about with cable. With cable, though, it'd take
a
> > good number of hours (up to a day or so) for the signal to clear up
after a
> > storm.
>
>  This defently sounds like a case of "box flooding" to me. Usualy it takes
> several hours for the water to evaporate and stop shorting out the wires.

The cable companies will happily mention 'rain fade' as if it'll get foggy
outside and you'll lose satellite but they won't mention box flooding. I
lost more signal/time with box flooding in various cable systems than I ever
have with DirecTV and rain fade.

> >With DirecTV (and a properly aligned dish) the only rain fade I've
> > experienced was when the storm was so nasty that you'd want to unplug
> > everything anyway.
> >
>  agreed. I start unplugging things when i begin hearing thunder, no
> matter how distant. Paranoid, perhaps, but lightning can strike
> several miles away from the actual storm, and there have been cases
> of lightning travling more than 20 miles from the storm to it's target
> (hence the phrase "bolt out of the blue".

Just to be clear - I've done this regardless of whether I had cable or
satellite. I always start unplugging things when storms come near.

> > * Some local channels were so bad that they were unwatchable. I called
them
> > on this a few times. Each time their answer was the same, "You're
getting
> > interference from the local channels and it's wiping out the cable
> > channels."
>
>  That shouldn't happen if the system is properly installed, and there
> is no problems with the coax sheilding.

It really shouldn't (wasn't that the whole point of cable to begin with - to
see the local channels clearly without the use of an antenna?). Anyway, they
(the cable company) had no interest in fixing it.

Brad