Recent content by Thoth

Oh, I see, thanks. All of the cables do have new, 3GHz ends on them as well. I have even re-terminated a couple and swapped things around to try and isolate the problem with no luck.

Thanks for the ideas! Yep, we almost always have everything in standby well before the nightly update, but I have also tried leaving them on and it doesn't seem to make any difference. I actually don't have any barrel connectors in the cable runs - they are direct from the backs of the...

I probably would leave them on the EHD, but then I'd have to post all of my wife's complaints about how she just finally learned how to watch her stuff, and now we've changed everything! But I'm sure no one else here has ever had that problem...;)

Thanks to everyone for your feedback. At least I came up with an original problem for my first post! At this point I think I will replace - one at a time so we know what (hopefully) fixes it - the node then the integrator, and if that fails I make the call to Dish to get a new Hopper. The crappy...

OK, running behind today but I just checked it. As I remembered, everything looks "normal" - except that the SJ tuners are missing, right on schedule. Both it and the regular Joey are linked, MoCA and other details all check out (good strength, no errors), even the images and descriptions are...

Hi ChadT41, thanks for the input. The cable is definitely all RG6 3GHz, and the runs are not even that long (each less than 40ft). What really ticks me off is that my neighbor signed up for a Hopper - SJ -2 Joey system about a month after mine, and the guy used the old leftover junk cabling from...

Thanks Hall, I'll definitely do that and post results tomorrow. I seem to remember checking that once before and thought that it said the SJ (and the other Joey as well) were linked and that MoCA was good, but I should verify that. I can say for sure that the SJ does play programming normally...

Your thoughts match mine - LNB and other hardware issues don't make sense. Heat would be a suspect but (like you pointed out) the problem isn't happening in the hottest part of the day. For example, I rebooted this morning and everything is up right now, even though it is pushing 100 outside and...

Hi WiCkeDuDe. Nope, only thing replaced so far was the SJ. I didn't suspect the node because everything works perfectly all day long, under all circumstances, until the nightly disappearance. I guess I thought that the behavior would be more random if it was a flaky node, so I was more focused...

Thanks for the reply, Hall. Yep, couldn't have said it better myself. They are MIA every morning like clockwork, and rebooting the SJ makes them come (and stay) back - until the next morning. Completely predictable and repeatable. They have replaced the SJ but not the Hopper. Could it be the...

Hello everyone! I'm new to the forum and have been searching for information about this issue with no luck. Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. I've been a dish customer for over 10 years, and a few months ago I upgraded to a Hopper-Joey-Super Joey system. In the course of...