COX Cable and their lies

[wxctintern]

COX Cable is always running commercials bragging how much better they are than satellite TV including how they stay on the air even during bad weather. Well guess what? It's raining like the dickens and COX is having lots of problems. I've seen digital signal break up on ESPN, ESPN2, HGTV, and Food Network. Those switched over to A Loss of Video Service Has Occured. They have since Come back. And Turner Classic Movies was completely blanked out and it said "No Signal". Then they came back. And E! had a picture frozen on the screen and it said "No Signal". And now they're back.

 

[rugrats1]

> COX Cable is always running commercials bragging how much
> better they are than satellite TV including how they stay on
> the air even during bad weather. Well guess what? It's
> raining like the dickens and COX is having lots of problems.

That was the truth when they gotten their signals from analog sources. But, with more and more cable systems getting them from digital sources (which is more suspectible to outages due to weather), it seems like cable viewers are in the same boat as small dish subscribers.

Of course, if they still use a giant dish to get their shows, there shouldn't be any trouble. But if the weather is bad enough, it could even affect the giant dishes.

Also, what time did these channels go out? This is also the time of year for solar outages.

 

[Markxxx]

> > COX Cable is always running commercials bragging how much
> > better they are than satellite TV including how they stay
> on
> > the air even during bad weather. Well guess what? It's
> > raining like the dickens and COX is having lots of
> problems.
>
> That was the truth when they gotten their signals from
> analog sources. But, with more and more cable systems
> getting them from digital sources (which is more suspectible
> to outages due to weather), it seems like cable viewers are
> in the same boat as small dish subscribers.
>
> Of course, if they still use a giant dish to get their
> shows, there shouldn't be any trouble. But if the weather is
> bad enough, it could even affect the giant dishes.
>
> Also, what time did these channels go out? This is also the
> time of year for solar outages.
>
It's the same with Comcast. Before Comcast my cable was Prime Cable, then TCI, then AT&T. Not ONE of the cable companies did I ever have issues with or did rain or weather disturb my signal.

When Comcast came in, everytime the thunder so much as sounded the channels went out. So it's not just Cox. Comcast doesn't seem to have any luck either
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[AllForADeuce]

> > COX Cable is always running commercials bragging how much
> > better they are than satellite TV including how they stay
> on
> > the air even during bad weather. Well guess what? It's
> > raining like the dickens and COX is having lots of
> problems.
>
> That was the truth when they gotten their signals from
> analog sources. But, with more and more cable systems
> getting them from digital sources (which is more suspectible
> to outages due to weather), it seems like cable viewers are
> in the same boat as small dish subscribers.
>
> Of course, if they still use a giant dish to get their
> shows, there shouldn't be any trouble. But if the weather is
> bad enough, it could even affect the giant dishes.
>
> Also, what time did these channels go out? This is also the
> time of year for solar outages.
>


Regardless, Comcast & Cox claim their solid performance in adverse conditions claiming how easy and often dishes went out. Too bad trees going down onl affect cable wires and not dish reception...unless the tree takes out your dish...maybe that should be in the Dish disclaimer. But then again, you won't be worried about signal reception when a tree comes down on your house! hehe