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The DirecTV folks spent five hours at my house today setting up the dish and four receivers. I have already set the DVR to record the BG/Minn replay tomorrow and the BG/MSU game on Sat.

When you live down in 'Bama, you have to go to drastic measures to see the Falcons.

Time Warner has been playing commercials lately regarding BTN. It's along the lines of how these other companies are making everybody pay for a channel that some people may not watch, and Time Warner wants to add the channel to a premium package so that you can buy it if you want to see it and not pass this "high priced" channel's cost on to all of its customers. Yeah, my guess is that they're feeling the hurt of not carrying this channel.

5 hours??? Why so long??

I ordered my DirectTV here in Columbus. To be installed this saturday morning. Canceled Time Warner.

House has three levels. Dish mounted on roof in the rear with cables going into garage. The ground wire went in one direction, the other cables went to the wholehouse wiring box in basement closet. They couldn't run new cables into the walls because the basement is mostly finished so they tied into existing cable service lines.

The last hour was the install guys trying to communicate to the DirecTV subscription guys to authorize the receivers. The installers are put on hold just like us regular folk.

It ws also 95 degrees and very humid. They took frequent breaks.

footballguy51 wrote:Time Warner has been playing commercials lately regarding BTN. It's along the lines of how these other companies are making everybody pay for a channel that some people may not watch, and Time Warner wants to add the channel to a premium package so that you can buy it if you want to see it and not pass this "high priced" channel's cost on to all of its customers. Yeah, my guess is that they're feeling the hurt of not carrying this channel.

I know.

Personally I want them to add the stuff to the basic package and say screw those that don't want it, raise everyone's bill, and let them subsidize my viewing

Moe Acne wrote:House has three levels. Dish mounted on roof in the rear with cables going into garage. The ground wire went in one direction, the other cables went to the wholehouse wiring box in basement closet. They couldn't run new cables into the walls because the basement is mostly finished so they tied into existing cable service lines.

The last hour was the install guys trying to communicate to the DirecTV subscription guys to authorize the receivers. The installers are put on hold just like us regular folk.

It ws also 95 degrees and very humid. They took frequent breaks.

I hope it doesn't take them that long for me, I have a 8-12AM time slot...games I want to see are @ Noon

bgsuman wrote:

Moe Acne wrote:House has three levels. Dish mounted on roof in the rear with cables going into garage. The ground wire went in one direction, the other cables went to the wholehouse wiring box in basement closet. They couldn't run new cables into the walls because the basement is mostly finished so they tied into existing cable service lines.

The last hour was the install guys trying to communicate to the DirecTV subscription guys to authorize the receivers. The installers are put on hold just like us regular folk.

It ws also 95 degrees and very humid. They took frequent breaks.

I hope it doesn't take them that long for me, I have a 8-12AM time slot...games I want to see are @ Noon

Good luck with that. I would guess that you better hope they get there before 10:00 to even have a shot.

Like Moe said, I know when we got DirecTV (way back when I still lived with my parents) it took them hours to mount the dish, hook up the receivers, get the dish calibrated and honed properly, and then they had to call and activate the services on the receivers.

hammb wrote:

bgsuman wrote:

Moe Acne wrote:House has three levels. Dish mounted on roof in the rear with cables going into garage. The ground wire went in one direction, the other cables went to the wholehouse wiring box in basement closet. They couldn't run new cables into the walls because the basement is mostly finished so they tied into existing cable service lines.

The last hour was the install guys trying to communicate to the DirecTV subscription guys to authorize the receivers. The installers are put on hold just like us regular folk.

It ws also 95 degrees and very humid. They took frequent breaks.

I hope it doesn't take them that long for me, I have a 8-12AM time slot...games I want to see are @ Noon

Good luck with that. I would guess that you better hope they get there before 10:00 to even have a shot.

Like Moe said, I know when we got DirecTV (way back when I still lived with my parents) it took them hours to mount the dish, hook up the receivers, get the dish calibrated and honed properly, and then they had to call and activate the services on the receivers.

grrr...I guess my backup will be the radio..

but originally they had me scheduled for Sept 20th(earliest then I placed my order), but I was able to re-schedule it online which was awesome...someone must have canceled.

Maybe I'll feed the tech or offer him a sixer(for when leaves of course) as incentive to work fast!

bgsuman wrote:

hammb wrote:

bgsuman wrote:

Moe Acne wrote:House has three levels. Dish mounted on roof in the rear with cables going into garage. The ground wire went in one direction, the other cables went to the wholehouse wiring box in basement closet. They couldn't run new cables into the walls because the basement is mostly finished so they tied into existing cable service lines.

The last hour was the install guys trying to communicate to the DirecTV subscription guys to authorize the receivers. The installers are put on hold just like us regular folk.

It ws also 95 degrees and very humid. They took frequent breaks.

I hope it doesn't take them that long for me, I have a 8-12AM time slot...games I want to see are @ Noon

Good luck with that. I would guess that you better hope they get there before 10:00 to even have a shot.

Like Moe said, I know when we got DirecTV (way back when I still lived with my parents) it took them hours to mount the dish, hook up the receivers, get the dish calibrated and honed properly, and then they had to call and activate the services on the receivers.

grrr...I guess my backup will be the radio..

but originally they had me scheduled for Sept 20th(earliest then I placed my order), but I was able to re-schedule it online which was awesome...someone must have canceled.

Maybe I'll feed the tech or offer him a sixer(for when leaves of course) as incentive to work fast!

Couldn't hurt!

One nice thing, is that noon is probably when the tech gets off. I know when I've had Time Warner come out on Saturdays the guy always gets off at noon and tries to get through all of the jobs as quick as possible to go home early on a Saturday

sounds good. I can also hope to at least see the 2nd half or so...maybe..