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KenB123

Last reply Mar 24, 2010 · posted in DISH Network Support Forum

DISH vs. Comcast?

I have been with DISH now for over three years (offered through ATT). Outside of the occasional snowstorm outages, I have been quite pleased with everything. I have the Absolute-HD package. Recently Comcast has made an offer that is quite tempting and would replace all three services I currently have with ATT (phone, DISH, internet).

Replacing the DISH part though is a tough one for me. Is there anybody here that recently switched from Comcast Cable that may offer some advice against such a switch? (NOTE: I actually came to DISH from Comcast because their prices seemed to go up every year. Supposedly this package being offered will lock-in for 2-years).

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Koilvr

Mar 23, 2010

if you have AbsoluteHD why would you leave? its only $30 bucks where will u find tv HD for that price?

jbull1381

Mar 23, 2010

I can take a short weather outage rather than multiple days outage when a tree takes down cable and the cable folks are in no hurry to repair it.

KenB123

Mar 23, 2010

Koilvr said:
if you have AbsoluteHD why would you leave? its only $30 bucks where will u find tv HD for that price?

AbsoluteHD has been a great deal for me, and I know once it is given up , then its gone. But loyalty aside, the offer presented to me from Comcast in a special Triple-Play package would beat this price. Not sure yet if it beats it by channnel line-up, but price-wise at least. I am doing a channel comparison check.

The Comcast price is not what can be seen on the Website. They are targetting satellite customers door-to-door in my area, enticing us to go with them for all 3 mediums (TV, Internet, Phone) at a special price.

Koilvr

Mar 23, 2010

KenB123 said:
AbsoluteHD has been a great deal for me, and I know once it is given up , then its gone. But loyalty aside, the offer presented to me from Comcast in a special Triple-Play package would beat this price. Not sure yet if it beats it by channnel line-up, but price-wise at least. I am doing a channel comparison check.

The Comcast price is not what can be seen on the Website. They are targetting satellite customers door-to-door in my area, enticing us to go with them for all 3 mediums (TV, Internet, Phone) at a special price.

It's a lie. I have comcast as DSL internet and hooked up there cable to my tv to get the local HD channels and still the quality sucks. I would read the fine print before signing. They told me the same thing that I would get there local tv service for $11.95 and the internet for $42.00 and I got my first bill the local TV was $16.95. still cheaper then my Teleco by $5.00 plus I get MTV VH1 and NICK where with my Absolute I do not get them.

yaz96

Mar 24, 2010

Koilvr said:
It's a lie. I have comcast as DSL internet and hooked up there cable to my tv to get the local HD channels and still the quality sucks. I would read the fine print before signing. They told me the same thing that I would get there local tv service for $11.95 and the internet for $42.00 and I got my first bill the local TV was $16.95. still cheaper then my Teleco by $5.00 plus I get MTV VH1 and NICK where with my Absolute I do not get them.

You obviously don't know Comcast. Comcast is CABLE internet, not DSL. Are you sure you have Comcast?

yaz96

Mar 24, 2010

KenB123 said:
I have been with DISH now for over three years (offered through ATT). Outside of the occasional snowstorm outages, I have been quite pleased with everything. I have the Absolute-HD package. Recently Comcast has made an offer that is quite tempting and would replace all three services I currently have with ATT (phone, DISH, internet).

Replacing the DISH part though is a tough one for me. Is there anybody here that recently switched from Comcast Cable that may offer some advice against such a switch? (NOTE: I actually came to DISH from Comcast because their prices seemed to go up every year. Supposedly this package being offered will lock-in for 2-years).

Is this the $89.99 Alchemy offer? 2nd year goes to $109? For all three, free long distance, and free HD-DVR ? No contract? Not a bad deal. Is your area going to see XFINITY anytime soon? They are doing that here and adding 50 new HD channels in May, at once. They basically switch everything from analog to digital and have room for tons more HD channels. Supposed to have 50mb internet standard by summer for regular price, and up to 100mb available by the end of the year. They just started switching all analog folks over to digital this month.

I would have to say in my area, the HD is just the same as DISH, quality-wise.

KenB123

Mar 24, 2010

yaz96 said:
Is this the $89.99 Alchemy offer? 2nd year goes to $109? For all three, free long distance, and free HD-DVR ? No contract? Not a bad deal. Is your area going to see XFINITY anytime soon?

I don't know if the package is call Alchemy, but it is the $89.99 Triple-Play. Includes Starz & HBO for first year. I was told I could keep it for a second year at the same price but without Starz & HBO. They said there are 240 HD/Digital channels. Not sure if there is a contract or not. And yes, XFINITY is in the area. It is a tempting offer considering my ATT phone rate just went up $5.00 and ATT-DSL is going up $3.00 next month. Switching is not something I cherish dealing with, but at the price offered, I felt I should at least look into it further.

yaz96

Mar 24, 2010

KenB123 said:
I don't know if the package is call Alchemy, but it is the $89.99 Triple-Play. Includes Starz & HBO for first year. I was told I could keep it for a second year at the same price but without Starz & HBO. They said there are 240 HD/Digital channels. Not sure if there is a contract or not. And yes, XFINITY is in the area. It is a tempting offer considering my ATT phone rate just went up $5.00 and ATT-DSL is going up $3.00 next month. Switching is not something I cherish dealing with, but at the price offered, I felt I should at least look into it further.

Heck, try it out, there's no contract. Keep DISH until you decide, that way you don't lose Absolute. I'd hate to lose mine.

If you don't like it, just keep the phone and internet.

markd

Mar 24, 2010

I switched from Directv to Comcast a few months ago. In my area Comcast has a good PQ. It's missing a few of HD channels that D* has. Cable PQ varies from city to city, or even block to block in the same city. I'm lucky.

I had to buy a TIVO HD, because there's no way I was going to use Comcast POS DVR. I've done it before and it's just awful. I do wish I could get the On-Demand stuff but it's not that big of a deal to me.

With Dish launching their new sat and adding more HD I'm thinking about going back to them again. But Comcast is still in the process of converting everything from analog to digital here. Plus they haven't started using the switched channel yet. So no telling what they might add in the future.

There's no contract with Comcast so you ought to give it a try before getting rid or Dish and see if you like what you get.

rklimaszewski

Mar 24, 2010

jbull1381 said:
I can take a short weather outage rather than multiple days outage when a tree takes down cable and the cable folks are in no hurry to repair it.

Reminds me when I was living in FL and we lost power for 10 days due to a hurricane. With my generator hooked up, I had lights, fans, water, and satellite w/DVR on my 55" Toshiba (everything but A/C!). My in-laws, who lived a few blocks away, also had a generator--but had cable TV. They had all the comforts we had, just no TV. They ordered up D* after that.

Koilvr

Mar 24, 2010

yaz96 said:
You obviously don't know Comcast. Comcast is CABLE internet, not DSL. Are you sure you have Comcast?

Yes I do but most people do not. DSL is through ur local landline phone company and High speed internet is what Cable has. Local phone company is direct. Cable high speed internet is on a Node with all ur neighbors. More people in ur neighborhood on the same node will slow ur speed down. I did not have this kind of issue with my local phone company. With comcast my speed always drops around 5pm when my neighbors get home. SO I used DSL cause alot of people think DSL is high speed internet.

With DSL I had a more constant speed since i was not sharing a line. With cable my speed fluctuates with the people i share the neighborhood. Sometimes my cable drops completely and I have to reset my router and cable modem to get back online. But I do love the way way faster speeds u can get with cable then with DSL.

I am 100% sure of what i got and its COMCRAPTIC which caps ur usage to 250gb downloads per month. I also know that I get there basic cable tv package and my quam tuner picks up there HD and its BAD.

KimmiKat

Mar 24, 2010

We recently went from AT&T to Comcrap for the internet, mainly AT&T made some changes and we were having constant outages on the DSL. After having a tech come out, said they moved the distribution box and we were now out of DSL range.

KenB123 said:
I don't know if the package is call Alchemy, but it is the $89.99 Triple-Play. Includes Starz & HBO for first year. I was told I could keep it for a second year at the same price but without Starz & HBO. They said there are 240 HD/Digital channels. Not sure if there is a contract or not. And yes, XFINITY is in the area. It is a tempting offer considering my ATT phone rate just went up $5.00 and ATT-DSL is going up $3.00 next month. Switching is not something I cherish dealing with, but at the price offered, I felt I should at least look into it further.

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What's For Lunch?

We have a Breakfast and Dinner thread so...

Continuing from the Breakfast thread, found Cornbread mix so ...
Yellow Cornbread Mix
2 Hatch Green Chiles -diced
1 Egg
2/3 cup of milk
add to greased pan
Bake for 400f 20-25 minutes(From instructions)
now to put together and try... this to go with pinto beans...

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Garlic cheese bread
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Oct 19, 2026

Club sandwich and corn chowder. Iced tea.

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Chili dog bowl, water… (homemade chili)

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iPhone Duo's First Concert! Revis!

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New iPad mini Announced... at $699?

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Scott Greczkowski

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Last reply Today at 12:33 PM · posted in The Chit Chat Club

Song Name Game Part 3!

Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!

So let the game continue!

The last song was added by Bobby who posted...

One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters

CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!

Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game

Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.

Example:

Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow

Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio

Another example:

Ride the Lightning -- Metallica

Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne

Get it?

An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....

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reubenray

Last reply Today at 10:36 AM · posted in Computers and Gadgets

Laptop Shutting Off When On Battery?

Lately my eight year old Dell laptop has been shutting off even when I have a full battery. I have had to keep it plugged up all the time to keep this from happening. Any idea what is causing this? I replaced the battery about three years ago.

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arlo

Today at 10:09 AM

A recalibration might be needed. Even if it shows full, the individual cells may have become unbalaced. And the BMS chip in the battery reports false information to the pc.
Try this. Start it up in the bios/uefi and leave it there until the battery dies and it shuts off.
It might just keep running longer than in Windows. Or run for a short while and shut off.
If it's the first case. Probably just needs a balancing. If the latter, the pack might just be dead.
Not throwing stones but perhaps just a cheaply constructed battery with substandard cells. Could be.

Patience. Keep restarting it in bios/uefi until it won't fire up anymore.
Then plug the charger in and let it complete a full charge. And see what happens. If it's better.
Do the same thing one more time. Run it until it dies dead-dead. Then just let it charge, pc shut off.
When charged, it might be better. It might not be.

There are bench jigs that read the actual BMS and override it to let a tech manually monitor and charge the separate packs. They can also reset any "time bombs" in it that cause an otherwise good pack to show bad.
Maybe Santa will be good to me some year.

You might just need a new battery. Maybe the PC power management chip is going. A Dell common thing.
Leaving a laptop plugged in with a full battery is known to reduce the life. Asus for one recommends that you don't leave the charger plugged in all of the time even when shut down. And setting Windows to charge the battery to 85% instead of 100% increases life.
That's all I got.

dishstaller

Today at 10:36 AM

arlo said:
That's all I got.

That was quite enough....I definitely learned something from your post. Thanks

TRG

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Last reply Today at 10:27 AM · posted in Computers and Gadgets

Starlink Router question

I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.

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b4pjoe

Saturday at 2:12 PM

TRG said:
I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.

If you can't get into the router to reserve an IP address just don't use DHCP on the device that needs connected and assign it to a specific IP address in the network settings.

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HipKat

Saturday at 11:07 PM

TRG said:
I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.

They are not. Your best bet is to set up a third-party router, attached to the Starlink for your server, that you can get into, like a Linksys, etc

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Foxbat

Sunday at 12:44 AM

TRG said:
…it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.

The Starlink V5 Install Kit I just got comes with the Mini Router. It is pretty limited in what it can do. For example, it can provide only one IP subnet at a time, no Guest Network, but it does support the pass-thru to a third-party Router. You can also split the Wi-Fi into separate 5 GHz & 2.4 GHz SSIDs to help some IoT devices that don't support 5 GHz bands to work.

The larger Starlink Router that still comes with the V4 Kit does support a Guest Network with separate IPv4 Subnet, but it's $120 from Starlink. And it still won't do DHCP Reservations.

harshness

Sunday at 11:46 AM

If you can restrict the DHCP address space to assign addresses to one end of the subnet (i.e. x.x.x.50+), you can manually assign the IP address on pretty much any operating system. This is a default behavior on several popular routers. As the Router Mini only supports 235 devices, I expect that's already done.

Another option is to use a router that supports PoE to power the antenna. This article discusses that option (under PoE Power heading):

Starlink V5 Is Here: What RVers Need to Know

Overview of the new Starlink V5 model along with comparison to the previous V4 model along with a recommended setup for mobile internet users.

mobilemusthave.com

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Foxbat

Today at 10:27 AM

Now that I've had the v5 kit with the Mini Router, it's not as bad as I first thought. Yes, no DHCP reservations, but you can set up multiple SSIDs that have separate IPv4 subnets, and like the big brother, you can select from 192.168.x.0/24 or 10.x.0.0/16 (where "x" is 1-4).

You can also split a subnet and have different SSIDs for the 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz channels to handle some IoT devices. I haven't discovered what subnet the 2nd NIC on the router assigns, I'm guessing it's the first subnet.

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Last reply Today at 10:27 AM · posted in The Chit Chat Club

I think we could all use a laugh - Rodney Dangerfield on Carson

Good...simple humor. Enjoy

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Today at 12:37 AM

Not Rodney, but a laugh ...

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dishstaller

Today at 10:27 AM

Sorry for posting the wrong link. Just corrected it.

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Last reply Today at 10:17 AM · posted in The Chit Chat Club

At least 64 dead in Spanish passenger train collision

Terrible tragedy. You would think that they would have safe guards in place that would prevent something like this from happening. I guess if you are going to ride in a passenger train it might be best to get a car near the rear.

At Least 64 Dead After Two High-Speed Trains Collide In Spain | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

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Jimbo

Yesterday at 11:24 AM

dishstaller said:
Terrible tragedy. You would think that they would have safe guards in place that would prevent something like this from happening. I guess if you are going to ride in a passenger train it might be best to get a car near the rear.

At Least 64 Dead After Two High-Speed Trains Collide In Spain | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

They will have to look at the switching sections to determine WHY 2 trains were on the same track ... at the same time.

dishstaller

Today at 10:17 AM

Thought this article might be of interest to some of you who might travel via train.

The safest seat to sit on in a train

Safety experts have shared top tips on train safety after a fatal railway crash in Spain killed 69 people, including where the safest place is in an emergency.

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