UCI Housing Network and Cable TV Issues

I am happy to report that in the month since UCI Housing switched us over to DirecTV, I haven't seen any serious outages. I have seen occasional receiver errors, though, but the DirecTV receivers seem to have a better error recovery mechanism that the… more »

In the last couple of days, I have noticed quite a number of chinese-language flyers being posted around campus housing. A fellow Chinese student, Jie, told me today that these flyers come from the Chinese student community, and they are trying to get… more »

It seems that the switch to DirecTV was a good one. I didn't notice a single outage over the Thanksgiving weekend. That is the longest time without outage since UCI started managing this. Of course, before, with my subscription to Cox, it wouldn't even… more »

Ok, UCI Cable TV is now using DirecTV... Let's just hope that the channel freezes are a thing of the past. The channel lineup is here. Some impressions so far: Still no ESPN, but at least Spike TV and FX, and HBO hopefully coming soon. The… more »

I just received this email: Greetings, We received information from the Housing technology office this morning regarding changes in the residential television services: The cutover to DirecTV will happen on Tuesday November 23. There will be… more »