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Superblade7 · 03-07-2013, 23:52

Earlier this year when we had heavy snow, I had great service throughout whereas my neighbour lost her Sky signal a couple of time due to both the volume of snow and the fact that some settled on her dish and blocked the signal to the LNB.

When I was with Sky myself years ago, I always used to lose signal in heavy rain and thunderstorms. Once a thunderstorm also screwed my Sky STB and had to cough up £60 for an engineer to replace it.

Since I've been with VM, I rarely lose signal but when I do it's only usually a short outage or once when I had regular pixelation, they sent an engineer out (for free) who adjusted the signals at the cab and never had an issue since.

Both services have their pros and cons but I don't think either are infallible.

03-07-2013, 23:52	#133
Superblade7 cf.geek Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Sheffield Services: Sky Q 2TB & Sky Q Mini (Signature with Cinema & Sports HD) with VM 500Mbps Broadband & Phone Posts: 583	Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 3. Earlier this year when we had heavy snow, I had great service throughout whereas my neighbour lost her Sky signal a couple of time due to both the volume of snow and the fact that some settled on her dish and blocked the signal to the LNB. When I was with Sky myself years ago, I always used to lose signal in heavy rain and thunderstorms. Once a thunderstorm also screwed my Sky STB and had to cough up £60 for an engineer to replace it. Since I've been with VM, I rarely lose signal but when I do it's only usually a short outage or once when I had regular pixelation, they sent an engineer out (for free) who adjusted the signals at the cab and never had an issue since. Both services have their pros and cons but I don't think either are infallible.