Maintenance contract with Directv or pay per visit?

[Hutch1814]

if you wait for a problem to happen and take the ddp plan they will wave to charge, not sure how long you have to keep but i do know they wave the fee if you have to tech add it at yourhouse.

Keep it for 10 months and you can cancel free of charge or cancel early and it's $10. I always tell people take it now then cancel it tomorrow. Save yourself $35 lol

[ghoff]

Thanks everyone for their response. My main question, whether or not do the monthly maintenance contract, has been answered. I am sticking to doing my own troubleshooting.
I finally did install the 5LNB with the SWN-16. It works perfect. All receivers came up the first time except for the one I am having trouble with video. I'm still fussing with it and I will get it back up. Now I have 5 HD DVRs. A couple of pictures, not the best looking setup, but I didn't want to cut cables in case the setup changes again. Thanks again, Gary

[Hutch1814]

Thanks everyone for their response. My main question, whether or not do the monthly maintenance contract, has been answered. I am sticking to doing my own troubleshooting.
I finally did install the 5LNB with the SWN-16. It works perfect. All receivers came up the first time except for the one I am having trouble with video. I'm still fussing with it and I will get it back up. Now I have 5 HD DVRs. A couple of pictures, not the best looking setup, but I didn't want to cut cables in case the setup changes again. Thanks again, Gary

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Not bad! However, them look like older 4 way splitters, I'd throw 2 eight ways on there and call it a day! Really nic for doing it yourself though. It's done right, with I could get a service call at your house

[ghoff]

As indicated in my first paragraph, I was having video problems with a HR-20. I could see the guide, menu and setup, but the channel would not show up. Called Directv tech and after about 1.5 hours, they wanted to send a tech. I didn't want to pay for it, so I decided to troubleshoot myself. I was pretty sure it wasn't the cables, but I changed the DVR out for another one and sure enough it came right up. So, it had to be the HR-20. It acted like it was the tuner. Took it apart and didn't see anything obvious. On a hunch, I decided to change the harddrive. Bought a WB 1 terabyte SATA drive. Put it in and it works better than new. Faster and, of course, more storage. Go figure why the harddrive gave such indications.