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Only 75%? Well there was no confrontation. I simply asked him to realign the dish better and he just departed without an explanation. My real question is whether in fact 75% is the best one can expect for the Ka satellites. When the receivers first came out I think this would be good, but...

I had an installer come out for a new installation and after quickly aligning the slimline with a signal meter, he concluded that 75% was sufficient for the Ka satellites. This is for an HR21 receiver. \I asked him to peak the dish better, whereupon he refused and abruptly left without even...

And another thing. Get a Vonage US telephone account and number. You will then never have any problems calling the 800 number for DirecTV. Also unlimited long distance calls to Canada and all the phone features for much less than any Canadian phone service.

Yes it does Yes it does. I had my AT9 dish installed in January 2006 at Calgary and have had great results with it ever since. Originally the installer peaked it off the older MPEG2 sats as per the instructions, but when the national HD channels went live I had good signal strength on...

I think that unless you want to have them come out and install everything, you will have to buy the new dish and receiver and install yourself. Then you can just call them and inform them the new receiver and access card and tell them to turn on the new MPEG4 channels.

There is nothing wrong here. Paying the bill in full, DirecTV gets their money. My point was that up to now, there was no way for them to verify your physical location and now there is. This is a very dangerous step for the millions of us that use it at other locations. Is there any way of...

Its scary because up to now, DirecTV had no idea of where your actual physical location is where you receive signals. So you can receive programming designed for a different location, have receivers in multiple locations, obtain service outside the US. But now, they could potentially figure...

I got the same email. It doesnt help me out unfortunately because they insist on sending an installer out for the dish and receiver. That won't work for systems in Canada.

Do you know if that would enable them to learn your location (via reverse IP# search)? Thats pretty scary for those of us subscribing to DirecTV in Canada.

I have not had any problems bringing DirecTV receivers into Canada. In fact, one I bought on Ebay and had shipped via post and the Canadian customs even attempted to charge tax and duty on it! There are many people who drive their satellite dish-equipped RVs across the Canadian border and use...

Use Vista If your computer is running Vista (Ultimate edition or Home Premium) and you have a tuner card, you can definitely record. It works wonderfully with the SD channels. A bonus is that you can also save shows to DVD or create WMV files out of them. The problem is that as far as I...

Its censorship What I find striking is that there are people who are so willing to accept this form of censorship from the Canadian government. Thats what it is, pure and simple. They are attempting to limit the forms of information that people can obtain. Witness what is happening in...

There is a difference to whom the laws apply. It is illegal for DirecTV to market their services to Canadian residents. If DirecTV knows it is selling to a Canadian resident, then DirecTV would have violated the law. But a person who subscribes to DirecTV with a US address and happens to...

dont give up Dont give up just because someone tells you its illegal. Its not, as long as you pay for the service. You really do need a US physical and billing address to subscribe (these need not be the same). It doesnt matter if you arent there - you can take your bills by email...

I dont know for sure about Edmonton, but in Calgary Canada I am getting decent signals on the 103(b) on the national HD channels. This is for an AT-9 dish, not a slimline, but I would imagine it would be similar. I have not tried fine tuning my dish yet to improve the signals.

OK; I see that the guide lists two versions of each type of channel, for instance 202 shows up twice in a row. Its a little bit confusing as it seems to change channels you cannot just hit the channel number you have to use the guide so that you get the right version of the channel.

how can I get the "old" SD versions? Now that they fired up the new HD versions I have some problems because my signal strength on the 103(b) satellite is not good - I probably need to repoint the dish. But the receiver is trying to use this new inferior signal on some of the channels (like...

Looks great from Calgary Canada

Getting about 75 readings on an H20 receiver for 103(b) in Calgary Canada. Any idea whether this is due to inadequate pointing or falloff at the northern border? I get about 95 on the 101 satellite for instance.

The MPEG4 spotbeam evidence is encouraging. Thats something I cannot check from my location. The dish is located in Calgary which isn't as close to the border as many other southern Canadian cities.

Does anyone know whether my 5Lnb dish located in Canada will have any trouble getting the new national HD channels? I am worried that these MPEG4 satellites will be able to be "tuned" more finely to the US boundary and I will lose my existing MPEG2 HD channels when they are switched. So far I...

I went back in and still cannot get any signal to show up at all. I tried all the antenna sizes (round, oval, 5LNB). The multiswitch option always seems to come up, so I couldnt not change that. But still no signals at all. This is very strange, since once again there is no problem with...

no signals Thats a good idea to try changing the multiswitch settings. I had not thought of that. As to the new software, as the previous poster stated, theres no way to do that when you cant get a signal. What is the method to "force" a software update anyway?

I am trying to set up a h20 receiver I bought on Ebay, but it shows 0 signal on all transponders (101) from the satellite dish. This is from the original setup process. What is strange is that I have no trouble getting signals on my old SD receiver. What can I do?

non 800 phone Does DirecTV have any regular (not 800) phone number? It seems that all the 800 numbers do not work in Canada and that is a big pain to reach customer service.