I got tired of Spectrum's endless price hiking and switched to DISH. DISH works, most of the time. The data rate is plenty fast enough for me. What is slow is switching from one web site to another. I fear this works by your system transmitting a request for change up to the satellite, and waiting for the satellite to respond. Since every DISH owner in North America is transmitting requests up to the poor over burdened satellites, it is not surprising that some of the requests get lost and have to be re-transmitted. When two requests to the satellite arrive at the same time, they jam each other and other requests must be re-transmitted. Net result, it takes DISH noticeable longer to switch to a new web site than cable modem Spectrum.
Disk comes with a massive video box which has instructions so complex I have not mastered them yet. And the video box ("Hopper") occasionally dies. If I cycle power and wait long enough (several hours last night) the video comes back.
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