Recent content by Mike

The current overseas support makes me want to slit my wrists and then murder a van full of kittens. (replace all occurrences of "kittens" with "puppies" if the former does not generate adequate empathy) Is there any way to contact USA based support for Sirius/XM? Their...

Not like they were updating it anyway - I only saw the error because I accidentally pressed On Demand. You can get tons more stuff on a Roku using a DISH account to log in.

Smartest post in the whole thread. I have no idea what kind of crack the phone people were smoking, or if maybe they were just trying to blow said smoke up my a$$, but my 922 is still working fine. Even DIRT did not return my messages. DISH is still charging me, the receiver still works, so I...

One last thing. Lately the on demand selection of the 922 has sucked rocks. I have HBO (some kind of deal where it's $10 a month) and there's just nothing there. Couple of random episodes of weird stuff and a few movies. There's no filters on or anything. I finally get this awesome 100 Mbit...

UPDATE: I contacted DIRT and they are gonna look into this more. Could be maybe phone reps just wanting to generally sell/upgrade crap and that the 922 is not being systematically eliminated. Do not want a contract. Any attempt to contract is an instant deal killer. It's such a PITA when you...

Got a phone call today and they said they are basically shutting down all the 922 receivers at the end of April. (I assume they want them all back to be crushed and then dumped somewhere in the Nevada desert.) They offered (in exchange for an owned 922 with OTA tuner) a rented Hopper w/Sling...

Everyone in this thread fails. The back of my remote has the following information: 32.0 UHF 2G FCC ID: QVETC4U2 IC: 3683B-TC4U2 EchoStar Technologies L.L.C 165540 Made in Mexico Patent Pending The quickest and easiest source of information concerning the frequencies that this remote uses, can...

Does the Hopper UHF remote ever have problems where you press a button ONE SINGLE TIME, yet the [redacted] piece of [redacted] proceeds to act as if you had pressed the button 17 or maybe 142 times? Specific interest as to whether you have this problem in relation to how many 2.4 GHz WiFi...

Did a full unplug reboot of the 922. It's now downloading an HBO show at 9 Mbps in HD. Hopefully it holds. The show looks good about a minute in, 720p at least (the first minute of most on demand stuff is blurry, it's optimizing during that time I suppose).

I got half of one episode to download, but it's worse than RealPlayer quality from 2000. Dishanywhere.com works, except there's little tiny gaps in the audio for some reason.

922 receiver. I have AT&T U-verse internet service, 18/1.5, and it speed tests at 22/1.9 usually. Trying to load on demand from MTV and HBO. The shows download for maybe 1-3 minutes and then it just fails. The download was going as slow as 80 kbps/sec. Usually it will be 2 Mbps for SD and a lot...

Apparently the 922 sends out the Sling video stream with no encryption at all. Here is a screenshot of me playing a short ASF file I was able to obtain. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ytfmo036s1s7xqr/Screenshot%202015-03-07%2000.32.29.jpg?dl=0 I am not offering any other details since it's...

My 922 still has a Home Media button. I only tried it once, 2 receivers ago; it was pretty poor. Audio worked OK, any kind of video inevitably screwed up.

I used to sell on Amazon (all kinds of stuff, some of it in bulk, but not DISH receivers) and ran into this problem all the time. The only solution that worked 100% of the time was to just create a new listing on Amazon. Some seller accounts could do this, for some reason, without paying the...

Not a damned thing here, except for a $75 charge on my account which is incorrect and was already removed once before.