I was thinking of switching from Direct to Dish. To compare them I subscribed to Dish while I still had Direct. I'm glad I did. For the same money I got a lot more channels on Direct, but what made up my mind about not switching was every time a cloud passed over my house I would loose Dish (very often I might add) but never once did Direct go out.
I got rid of my land line witch had no effect on Direct but Dish started charging me extra for not being connected to a working phone line. I didn't wait for the contract to run out, I paid the penalty to get out of it.
I'm now stuck with Dish high speed Internet for what they call high speed I'm paying $50.00 a month, to get out of it I would have to pay $25.00 a month. You might ask why I would want to get out of my 18 month contract? The same thing happens with their satellite, it doesn't take thunder, rain or snow for me to loose the connection, just a cloud will do it. Now I've been having trouble with speed. After calling every day for a week complaining about 8 to 15 kbps downloads they finally told me I went over my limit of downloads for the month and they are restricting my speed. Has anyone ever heard of any thing like this? It was a shock to me that $50.00 a month isn't enough for them, & they have to use every excuse they can dream up to get more out of us.