Should you buy an antenna from a drug store?
I was in a Rite Aid drugstore recently and I saw they had several small TV antennas for sale. Some promised hundreds of channels. One was about the size of a roll of quarters. Each made the same...
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If you have a satellite dish on your boat, do you need to power the dish...
Marine satellite TV. It’s been the smart choice for entertainment for almost 20 years. You know what, though? It’s still the smart choice. In the last year or so, a lot of people have been talking...
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How to clean out your DIRECTV Genie series manager
It’s been a long time since there’s been any scripted TV to watch, at least on DIRECTV. Whatever you think about the actors’ and writer’s strikes, whether you think they were justified or not, they...
View ArticlePodcast #562: Satellite TV problems in cold weather? Listen to this important...
If you’re living through some extreme weather right now — who isn’t? — here are some tips you’ll want to know about your satellite system. Listen, shop at https://www.solidsignal.com, and call...
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What’s the best way to aim a cell antenna?
A cellular signal booster is a complex system with several parts. One of the most important is the outdoor antenna. The outdoor antenna picks up signals from cell towers that are too weak for your...
View ArticleWhat’s the difference between “cloud DVR” and “on demand?”
Every so often, our tech support department gets a question like this: All of a sudden my recordings won’t let me skip commercials. Some of them tell me I can’t fast-forward through them, but other...
View ArticleIT’S TRUE: you can use an external hard drive with a DISH receiver, but not...
There’s a neat feature of DISH DVRs that pretty much no other provider has. You can transfer your recordings to an external hard drive on some DVRs, and you can connect a hard drive to a standard...
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Ken Reid and Dan Frischman
May 16-22, 1987 This week Ken welcomes actor, magician, host of the new show “Head of the Senior Class” and all around solid dude Dan Frischman to the show. Ken and Dan discuss growing up as magic...
View ArticleTHROWBACK THURSDAY: A day without a DVR
Back in 2013, I decided to live without a DVR. At least, for one day. Even back then, a lot of people had moved away from live TV. So I decided to try it. I wrote: Knowing that you can’t pause really...
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TV and Internet Brokerage from Signal Connect
Why limit yourself? When you move, you have a lot of tasks to do very quickly. You have to deal with moving, turning on utilities, and at the end of the day, you’re going to be exhausted. That’s why...
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Should you mount your dish on the eave or on the roof?
If you’re thinking of satellite TV, you might be driving around seeing a lot of dishes and thinking about where to put yours. Most new customers today let someone else install the equipment. However,...
View ArticleHow to understand how much amplification you need (and don’t need)
Are you the sort of person who thinks you always need more power? A lot of us are like that, and I don’t blame you. But when it comes to amplifying signals, more power isn’t always best. Believe me,...
View ArticleFUN FRIDAY: They haven’t replaced me yet
I think at one point or another we have all worried about losing our jobs to machines. After all, in our grandparents’ day most factories were full of people. Modern factories have traded people for...
View ArticleNICE AND EASY: Will an air conditioner interfere with a cell booster?
Call this one confirmed. Roof-mounted air conditioners can absolutely affect the performance of cellular signal boosters. It’s a big enough problem that at least one manufacturer recommends...
View ArticleIs a bigger antenna actually better?
This antenna is big. Something like 12 feet long. And in case you’re having trouble thinking about what that looks like, think like about the length of a Chevy Suburban. On your roof. But is bigger...
View ArticleDoes DIRECTV’s wireless boxes work as well as regular ones?
DIRECTV has actually had a wireless client for almost 11 years. It first rolled out back in 2013 and my review of it was very positive. In the years since, it’s pretty much stayed the same, with the...
View ArticleSTREAMING SATURDAY: The distopian view
Here’s a little parable, something I hope never happens. It’s January, 2027. After all the streaming mergers were done, there was only one service left. Called “Zaslav,” it was formed from the bones...
View ArticleWhat should you do with old RG6 cable?
I know this guy. He’s got maybe 500 feet of old RG6 cable spooled up in his shed. I’m talking stuff that old cable companies strung, antenna cable, cable that came with stuff that wasn’t used. It’s an...
View Article5 Services you didn’t know Signal Connect can offer you (#1-5)
When most people think of Solid Signal, they think of our great web site. I don’t blame them. It’s the perfect place to find tens of thousands of pro-quality parts that you can’t find anywhere else....
View ArticleCommercial customers: Don’t stream in public!
“It’s a victimless crime.” “Everybody does it. “No one will ever know.” These are things we tell ourselves every day when we want to so something that is against the law or against the moral compact...
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