Threat of rain and Im getting bad signal. I gave up Directv for this?
Any insight?
For the first couple of months, my system would get a little flakey during storms. I never completely lost signal, but I started noticing more macroblocking and pixilization when it rained. Thanks to the folks here and on Utalk, I learned how to get some meaningful stats on my connection and noticed that even during good weather, I was getting millions of corrected errors per 15 minutes and hundreds of uncorrectable errors each day.
I called tech support, they ran some sort of line quality check from the office, and said that I had a problem. They dispatched a tech who looked at a few things in my house, but spent most of his time out at the NID. He didn't say exactly what he did, but whatever it was cleaned up my signal significantly. He also identified a possible bridge tap on my line and put in a ticket for I/R to remove it. Initially (before the bridge tap was removed) my corrected blocks dropped to a few thousand an hour. After the bridge tap repair, I now only get a few thousand corrected blocks a day, and only a few uncorrectable blocks. We haven't really had any significant weather (other than heat and humidity) since he fixed it, but I'm anticipating that my system will be much more stable the next time it storms.
Bottom line is, if your signal is marginal when the weather is good you're likely more susceptible to having problems when the weather gets bad.