Satellite TV Reliability - As Bad As Cable Companies Claim?

By: Galen Randel

Ten years of lousy service is something I do not easily forget. That was how long I had to rely on cable television for all of TV viewing. Before I ever signed up for cable television, I always expected the quality of the reception to be quite exceptional. After all, that's what their commercials said. In my opinion they were wrong. I was never satisfied with the picture quality.

For me, cable television service meant frequent price increases. It seemed to me that they were raising the price of the service every few months even though the service was not improving and they were not adding new channels to my programming package.

Although much has changed with cable TV service since I was a customer, I know that they have not changed their ways when it comes to frequent price increases. I live in an area where the only option for high-speed Internet service is provided by the local cable television company. Since I really do need high-speed Internet access, I am still dealing with frequent price increases imposed on me by the cable TV company today.

For an unhappy cable TV customer like me, I knew I had to try satellite television. I chose Dish Network because I liked their programming packages better than the other satellite service.

My Dish Network service has been outstanding for the last nine years. I remain a very happy Dish Network customer and can report that I have had to deal with very few problems since I have had it. I experienced many more problems and outages with cable than I have with Dish Network.

The cable TV companies love to make up stories about how bad weather can disrupt satellite TV service. Yes, it's true that bad weather can cause problems with satellite television, but in my experience this is a rare occurrence and it only happens with very bad weather, which we do not see very often. Don't let the cable television companies fool you into thinking that satellite TV service has a lot of problems with weather-related outages.

One thing I do recall experiencing as a cable TV customer were outages due to traffic accidents that severed telephone poles and weather-related outages due to a wind storm or ice storm bringing down the cable television lines. These outages would sometimes last for days until the lines could be repaired. In contrast, I have never experienced a weather-related outage with Dish Network that lasted for more than 30 minutes.

Since you do not have to worry about wires or telephone poles being knocked down, outages are less frequent, and more importantly, a lot shorter with satellite TV when compared to cable television. I can recall cable TV outages that lasted for days following a major storm. Sure, without electric power, you are usually not able to watch TV, but in my experience, the cable TV outages always lasted longer than the power outages, and if you happen to have your own generator, you can continue to watch satellite TV even if the power lines are down.

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