Direct TV in Houston
Direct TV in Houston Anyone here work for Direct TV in Houston? I will gladly give you $50 cash under the table and some cold beers if you can get me hooked up tomorrow. The retards that they keep sending out are rediculous. The first one doesn't show up on my apointment date and the other one that shows up today just kept giving me the runaround. I have been on the phone with them for about 7-8 hours over the last 3 days and am about to cancel my service if I can't get something done soon about it. I just want to have TV again. 
do you know what the problem is?? i got mine all hooked up by myself without knowing a thing. let me know the problem and maybe i can assist you. btw mine was getting satellite signal but NOT satellite info..
and if u do cancel for goodness sake dont go to comcast ha
and if u do cancel for goodness sake dont go to comcast ha
yeah, it's easy as hell to set up DirecTV, i did mine all on my own, along with my mom's house and her old camp house.
the hard part is finding the installation kits that contain all the cables & connectors you need without spending a fortune for it.
when i wired up my DTV, i bought 3 install kits (two kits for my DirecTivo unit that has 2 tuners, and another for a second standard receiver) at Radio Shack, and they were like $15/each.
then a couple years later, it was hard to find any place that sold the same exact kit for less than $50....i forget where i ended up getting the kit then, but i was able to find it for about $20 after a lot of searching.
i personally don't trust an install person, i've heard of tons of stories of people getting their old receivers (owned, not leased) taken when they upgrade to a new receiver, and some really shitty cable installs & such. it's so easy to install a cable kit for DTV and point a dish, a money could probably do it if they knew how to read the instructions.....and yet, DTV install techs screw up on stuff all the time....i don't understand it.....
the only way i would ever let anyone do an install is if it was required by law, such as the DirecPC service that uses a DTV dish to send/receive data....they won't sell you just the equipment and let you install it yourself.....since it both sends & receives, instead of receiving only, it's required by law for a "qualified & trained technician" do the install for you.
but then again, i'd never put myself in the position of moving to an area where i couldn't get cable/dsl/wireless service anyway, so that's kind of a moot point.......
the hard part is finding the installation kits that contain all the cables & connectors you need without spending a fortune for it.
when i wired up my DTV, i bought 3 install kits (two kits for my DirecTivo unit that has 2 tuners, and another for a second standard receiver) at Radio Shack, and they were like $15/each.
then a couple years later, it was hard to find any place that sold the same exact kit for less than $50....i forget where i ended up getting the kit then, but i was able to find it for about $20 after a lot of searching.
i personally don't trust an install person, i've heard of tons of stories of people getting their old receivers (owned, not leased) taken when they upgrade to a new receiver, and some really shitty cable installs & such. it's so easy to install a cable kit for DTV and point a dish, a money could probably do it if they knew how to read the instructions.....and yet, DTV install techs screw up on stuff all the time....i don't understand it.....
the only way i would ever let anyone do an install is if it was required by law, such as the DirecPC service that uses a DTV dish to send/receive data....they won't sell you just the equipment and let you install it yourself.....since it both sends & receives, instead of receiving only, it's required by law for a "qualified & trained technician" do the install for you.
but then again, i'd never put myself in the position of moving to an area where i couldn't get cable/dsl/wireless service anyway, so that's kind of a moot point.......
