Post by Cape DwellerPost by AshikagaOkay, we already called the technician, and it's fixed now while I was
gone, and my father talked to the guy. The way my father described (may
not be accurate) it seems there is a connector box that was soaked with
water, so they fixed that. So everything is good now.
Interesting... I installed the satellite dish both times for my
father/parents (first at his "bachelor pad", then when they moved to their
current home) - I don't recall any connector boxes. I think you have a
variety that's designed to fail every so often, so you have to call and
pay technicians to come and fix it :P
We have two satellite dishes, you see. At first, my parents were
subscribing this Taiwanese TV thingy, and then the company got bought out
by Dish Network, so all the remaining annual subscription is now being
served by Dish Network. They installed another dish, and connected both
dishes up so we can have both U.S. programming and Chinese programming at
once (I guess the direction of the satellites are different). So they have
to have a box I guess.
For some odd reason, another guy came to fix it yesterday. It was a kid,
actually (I've never seen a technician who is below 30 years old, and this
kid looked like 16 or a very young 18). I told him we already got it
fixed, but he was confused and said maybe the previous guy wasn't a Dish
Network Contractor, but just to be safe, he needed to check the setup (so
he can tell the boss that he did his job). It was fine, but he offered to
put the box under the roof so it won't get soaked again. I said okay. The
weird thing is, the guy went to our backyard, and he said "This [the
backyard] could be good for a party" or something like that. I was like
"Huh?" But gave a wry grin.
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Post by Cape DwellerPost by AshikagaI just use Internet. That's better than any Reality TV show....
I think I'm growing a bit weary of the Internet lately... There's a lot of
things that I want to accomplish as far as creating/updating web pages,
but I don't seem to have any time to work on them. It's also difficult
finding a decent host - how are you liking the one that Poly told you
about?
There is no tech support whatsoever. I couldn't get on now since I lost my
password somehow. I've contacted them several times but no reply. I am
giving up now, though I did pay some donation money to them....
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