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i think one of your neighbors moved next to me as she is stealing my cable(married boyfriend tapped into it)--so we are looking into dish or direct--i appreciate the info
i remember a few years ago, the road i lived on had all overhead utilities.
my dog was going crazy late one night, and i went outside to find my new neighbor at the top of a utility pole hooking in to the cable TV line.
Where I live they catch people all teh time stealing cable and the cost isn't worth it.Mnay are felonies by the time they file and lawyer love the income.I saw a fine the other day of 1500 plus restitution of three years cable cost that was 2520 plus two year probation with a record of felony theft of service. Definitely not worth it.
I have had cable TV, DirecTV and Dish Network over the past few years. All have their upsides and downsides. I am currently using DirecTV with Cable Internet and am quite happy with it. I also have WHOLE HOME DVR setup. Its nice but it does loose its connection to the main DVR at times. YOu have to reset both boxes for them to sync up again.
I do loose satelitte signal occassionally which can be aggravating but its not happened enough times or at the wrong times to really be much of a bother. I have not used the onDemand yet because it has to use your internet connection and setting my direcTV box to the internet is not as simply as plugging in a cat5 cable even though they have a RJ45 connection on teh back of the box!?@!?! DOH!
. . . . I also have WHOLE HOME DVR setup. Its nice but it does loose its connection to the main DVR at times. YOu have to reset both boxes for them to sync up again.
just curious; are the receivers connected via their MOCA adapters, or through an existing wired network?
You must live in a pretty bad neighborhood. You'll be lucky if they don't mess your dish up.
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No, we don't live in a 'bad neighborhood'. Just a rural one. As it had been years since someone here had paid for cable, no one was aware that the line was 'maxed' and since they weren't paying for it, they never complained about the poor quality of the reception (though one neighbor said it didn't get 'bad' until we were hooked up to it). I think it's a common attitude these days - people don't think of it as 'theft'. We had a neighbor in NM years ago who stole our extra city trash can. (Long story, the husband knew, the wife didn't) It took about 9 months for us to discover that THEIR extra can was the one we had been paying for (and fighting the city over). They KNEW they weren't paying for it - the wife told me she didn't know I was paying for it. As I told her then, "Just because you thought you were stealing from a company, not your neighbor, doesn't make you any less of a thief!"
We've now lived here for just over a year, and no one has messed with the dish - all of those 5 have them now - though a couple went with a different company than Directtv.
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