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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rodrigo Istalindir" data-source="post: 3164273" data-attributes="member: 2810">My dad has had Dish Network since almost the beginning.  It has issues -- the lack of a local presence is a PITA when there are equipment issues, for example.  But it's still much better overall, I think, than his local cable company (Comcast).  The picture quality is generally better, and their HD is *much* better.  He also has the integrated HD PVR.He lives in Florida, land of the afternoon thunderstorm.  There are occasional signal interruptions in a heavy downpour.  Wind isn't generally a problem so long as its installed properly.  I was visiting during a couple years ago when a hurricane came within 50 miles or so and we kept a signal through most of it.  It was kind of amusing -- the rest of that week, there were Comcast ads on the local channels (which we were seeing via the dish) talking about cable wasn't subject to weather interruptions.  Meanwhile, there were 10s of thousands of customers without cable for several weeks because of all the lines that got blown down  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /> Customer service is staffed by the same low-paid, reading-from-a-script monkeys that pretty much any technology-oriented company uses nowadays.I live in an apartment where I can get a dish signal, but if I could I'd switch in a minute.  All other things being equal, I just have more choices with the dish than with cable.  They are remarkably more accomodating about adding and removing packages.  For example, my Dad would add just HBO for the run of the Sopranos and then dump it again, and they never charged him $.01 more than they should or jerked him around about it.</blockquote>

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