At 15:46 -0600 9/11/04, Philip Stortz wrote:
it depends on where you live. i'm in casper wyoming, our satellite tv has problems only
in extremely heavy rain storms, and once or twice in winter.
My sister uses satellite Internet service from her motor home. She tells me you also have to be concerned about "rain fade" at the "other end", i.e., where the signal is beamed up to the satellite on its way to you, and your transmission is beamed down from the satellite. She has encountered this, where the weather would be clear at her location in the west, but a T-storm was camped over the NOC in Maryland.
We have DirecTV (television only, no Internet), and get rain fade when thunderstorms move through southwest of our location in northern Virginia. The signal loss usually doesn't last more than 10 to 15 minutes.
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Roger
Lovettsville, VA
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