ispgeek Posted October 2, 2006 CID Share Posted October 2, 2006 Each Spring and Fall, communication companies experience a technical phenomenon called "sun outages." For a period of about 2 weeks, the sun causes "solar interference" to all geostationary satellite signals. As the sun's path across the sky gets lower each day, there are times when it is in a direct line behind a communication satellite that is sending signals to a receiving satellite dish here on earth. When the dish antenna is looking into the sun, the interference from the sun overrides the signals from the satellite. This is when a sun outage occurs. Sun outages typically occur during the months of February/March and September/October and can last as long as 15 minutes a day and take place over a period of 15 days. The effects of a sun outage vary in degree from minimal to total outage throughout the 15 day period. Once it reaches its peak, the interference will gradually decrease becoming less noticeable each day after. Unfortunately, there is technically nothing that can be done to prevent sun outages from occurring. Each satellite service that we receive signals from will experience this interference at predictable times. These outages will affect services including but not limited to cable television, internet, satellite internet, cellular phones and any other device that may rely upon satellites for service. I am working on a list of approx times and dates for general areas and will post them shortly (I hope). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark06 Posted October 2, 2006 CID Share Posted October 2, 2006 wqould love to have that to make a graph indicating which one was worse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ispgeek Posted October 2, 2006 Author CID Share Posted October 2, 2006 I have the data....it's just formating it now so that it's useful...I just found out that it doesn't copy and paste too well.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostmaster Posted October 2, 2006 CID Share Posted October 2, 2006 For all HughesNet users: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16903011~mode=flat --Thanks to SeaGreen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ispgeek Posted October 2, 2006 Author CID Share Posted October 2, 2006 Thank you! The above will save me from having to redo an xcel spreadsheet.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostmaster Posted October 2, 2006 CID Share Posted October 2, 2006 The Americom site is especially nice.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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