The dish cometh
by Tom on Sep.23, 2004, under Uncategorized
Yeah, I know, I missed yesterday. But yesterday was a special day. Yesterday was the beginning of the DirecTV Era in the Edwards household.
Going home with the belief that I’d be there as the male influence in the house (Tara doesn’t like being alone with strangers in the house) and little else, I ended up helping the poor guy getting up and down the ladder (I probably should have told them it was a two story house) and a few otehr things. I felt bad for the tech, because it probably took him a lot longer than he thought, as they (DirecTV) called at 5PM to see if he was still there. He ended up being there until after 6, and he still had another job in East Hampton.
DirecTV kind of pissed me off in that after he got the call, the guy seemed a little rushed. He was just drilling holes in walls and running wire through. I’ve got no complaints about outside appearance or signal - he hid the wires on the outside great and the signal strength is awesome - but right next to the cable jack, there’s a hole in the wall where the satellite cable is coming through the house. It would have been nice to see a jack there, but again, he was kind of rushing to get to the next job and I don’t know if they even do jacks. I’ll look into possibly doing that myself, for the hell of it. I can make and crimp CAT5 cable, how much harder can coax be?
Now I have to cancel my cable TV (not a problem) and my TiVo service, because we got a TiVo box with DirecTV and that service is free - instead of the $13 a month we pay for the regular box (yet another selling point for the dish). We’re still keeping the cable modem, because there’s realisticly nothing better than that, unless I can convince someone to install a T1 in the house.
