Recent content by gmtech12002

So far so good, and scooterdog, if you have the protection plan it should be free. Also do what I did and get your ISP to discount your bill due to the fact that the broadband you are paying them for cant be used because their modem failed. It lastly to skip out on the 120.00, just pay the...

Just an update, broadband still going since the 1704 upgrade, maybe the hopper ain't such a flopper

Day 3 and still going strong with the 1704 fix. My suggestion,,,, pay the 5 or 10 a month for the first month and get the 1704 then cancel the protection plan. This way you have only 5 or 10 bucks in a$120.00 modem/router

Oh yea, I am running wireless, havent tried with Ethernet cable cause its running good wireless

The modem replacement has been the fix for me, 2 days strong so far, windstream tried every trick in the book to charge me 120.00 for the 1704. Even went so far as to say if I were to purchase there insurance/protection plan for 9.95 a month that they could cover the modem with this, but I...

ok heres my latest update, dish came monday and replace the hopper and the usb wireless, but still no broadband, so i spent monday night and tuesday night with tech assistance at windstream and dishnetwork, i finally convinced windstream to replace my 4300 modem, they replaced it with the 1704...

first, thanks bobiii, i dont have the same setup you do. Next, I dont wanna be the one to look a gift horse in the mouth, i wanna punch it in the mouth, i got home from church tonite, and my internet is working without me doing anything, dish is scheduled to be here tomorrow to fix it, but...

Hey Bobiii could you clarify what you did, thanks

thanks Dune, i agree with you totally, heres my update, i tried a new router, instead of linksys, i am now using netgear, i also set up port forwarding and dmz with the netgear router, but with no avail. i did however learn that when forwarding ports you need to do this in the router and the...

thanks for the port forward link, i believe that i did actually perform the steps properly, the only thing is that i was unsure how to set the ip address for the hopper to static, dish told me it had to be dhcp. also i tried the connection last night directly to my modem and i got the same...

i do run avg, so i will try this, what if i were to bypass the router all together and just run my modem through ethernet directly to the hopper, would this bypass all my router and port issues allowing for a direct connection to the internet???? that way i will know if i have a hopper issue or...

I tried testing all 3 ports 80 443 &5678 with an online port tester and they all report to be closed. I don't believe this to be completely true, I read somewhere last night that 80 is used for http, which leads me to believe that if 80 were closed then my browser wouldn't work on my pc...

i forgot to list my hardware, windstream dsl, 4300 sagemcom modem, with linksys wrt54gs2 router, 1 hopper 2 joeys

ok heres the latest, i just got done with about 2 hours or diag with tech assistance, heres what i got so far, all three ports 80 443 and 5678 are showing closed, i have tried several times to forward these ports in my router with no success, and i need to know how to setup a statip address for...

this system is only 3 weeks old, so i would be happy if dish would just send me a new reciever, i went through their troubleshooters on tech assistance with dish, but no help.. the guy on tech assistance said that he would elevate this case to engineering because it looks like the bb stopped...