Let’s say for example that you bought one of our DIGIAIR signal meters. It’s a great tool for people who need to measure antenna signals all the time because it’s very, very accurate. The measurements it takes,…
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This is the Medusa, a mythical creature with a head full of snakes. A 32-port splitter would be just as ugly. Our customer service department recently got a request for a 32-port splitter, to run the…
If your cell booster isn’t doing its job… before going crazy try simply unplugging it and plugging it back in a few seconds later. Remember that cell boosters are computers too, and eventually they could freeze…
We’ve gotten pretty lazy lately. There was a time when if you wanted your calendar and contacts kept safe, you literally had to make copies of them. Real paper copies. Like, you had a paper book…
ADVANCED RECEIVER SERVICE FEE $25 … that’s the way it reads on your bill. If you started with DIRECTV in the last two years, or if you made an upgrade to your service, you probably have…
Remember almost two years ago… when I told you all about Reverse DBS, the technology that could let DIRECTV get a lot more use out of its bandwidth? By using the frequencies it’s reserved for sending…
It’s inevitable, like death and taxes. There’s at least a 3dB loss from every 1×2 splitter. In fact, there could be more. Why is that? To understand why there’s no escaping a 3dB loss, you need…
It’s no fun when the TV signal goes out. If you have DIRECTV, you know that the reliability is well over 99% as long as the system is set up right, but sometimes there are problems….
I bet you could put up an outdoor antenna. Sure, not everyone can get up on a roof, and not everyone lives in a freestanding home. But chances are, there’s a public space where you can…
So when you’re aiming a dish, you can go to dishpointer.com and get a pretty good idea of where to aim by choosing the 101 satellite for DIRECTV or one of the correct satellites for DISH…
If you’re like me, you keep every power brick, wall wart and adapter you’ve ever had, even if you’ve long since tossed the device that it plugs into. After all, you think, they come in handy…
It’s nothing. At least not today. It seems like all the hype about mobile internet speeds has died down a little bit. Back when we all talked about speeds of 256kbps over a mobile connection…
As you know, The Solid Signal Blog has the most comprehensive online list of DIRECTV error codes. (Didn’t know that? Check them out here.) If your receiver gives you a three-digit code, we can help you understand…
Since this is the last Fun Friday before Thanksgiving, I pulled out this article from the Smithsonian giving us all sorts of fun facts about turkeys. The turkey as we know it is a fairly wobbly, odd-looking bird…
Yeah, you know these. You’ll find them in restaurants that call themselves “gastropubs” or some other made up thing. They look like they were hanging in a barn in 1910, and are most often found today…