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  1. M

    Is there any USA based phone support?

    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...
  2. M

    922 - On Demand No Longer Available

    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.
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    The End Of The 922

    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...
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    The End Of The 922

    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...
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    The End Of The 922

    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...
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    The End Of The 922

    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...
  7. M

    UHF Remote Is Intolerable

    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...
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    UHF Remote Is Intolerable

    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...
  9. M

    On demand very slow then fails

    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).
  10. M

    On demand very slow then fails

    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.
  11. M

    On demand very slow then fails

    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...
  12. M

    Theory about why DISH disabled 922 Sling

    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...
  13. M

    922 missing home media function in menu

    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.
  14. M

    DISH WRONGFULLY HAD MY EBAY LISTING REMOVED ANY DISH REPS HERE?

    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...
  15. M

    Two free Dish PPView coupons

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

    Cheapest way to get Dish installed with no contract?

    Can you drop to the welcome pack when you're on a contract? I always got the impression you couldn't since it was so cheap, but that's more of that information which isn't easy to confirm definitively. It's (intentionally, IMO) difficult to be accurately informed of all of the options, what is...
  17. M

    922 is going to take a dump and die soon?

    The replacement 922 is already failing again - and DISH has screwed up their billing not once, but twice. I originally bought the 922 on January 14th, 2014, so the original 1 year warranty is now over (not like they really honored it anyway, with this $75 charge sitting on my account - DIRT got...
  18. M

    Need to point 1000.2 WA to the EA

    Yeah, this was the exact post that seemed to indicate it's possible to get this to work. http://www.satelliteguys.us/xen/posts/2234468/ Just spent 30 minutes on it with no success. All that seems certain is that I can receive 61.5 quite well. Gave up and I'm watching Bill Maher on the SD HBO...
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    Moved and now UHF remote is intolerable

    The threads on the remote antenna are different. I have a picture to back this up. https://www.dropbox.com/s/6iqhv547psk5svo/CoaxThreads.jpg?dl=0 I remember with the 501 the threads used to be regular. Also, the provided antenna was just a straight metal wire. As an experiment once I hooked up...
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    Need to point 1000.2 WA to the EA

    I should have the correct LNB part tomorrow, $20 was more than fair and I have Amazon Prime. Hopefully after a check switch and a few dozen reboots the receiver will retain the guide. EDIT: Spoke too soon. Amazon managed to screw up the billing. Now it didn't ship out today, it won't come until...
  21. M

    Need to point 1000.2 WA to the EA

    This looks like the right part? Only $20, not too bad.
  22. M

    Need to point 1000.2 WA to the EA

    Yeah, Houston locals are on 61.5, SD and HD. Also the SD national channels. How many other markets are like Houston, fully duplicated on both arcs? I know some other markets were duplicated but then moved to one or the other.
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    Need to point 1000.2 WA to the EA

    So I found this post. This guy says it's possible to use a Dish 500. My mom still has an old one on her roof and it's mine if I want to take it down. http://www.satelliteguys.us/xen/posts/2843451/ I can't find the original post that talks about using the WA LNB for EA. But the gist of it was...
  24. M

    Need to point 1000.2 WA to the EA

    At my old apartment I had installed a 1000.2 WA, mostly because I was just personally more familiar with 110/119. Then I moved to a new apartment that has an eastern facing balcony. So I figured that works out fine, Houston locals are on both WA and EA, and my only receiver is a 922. After some...
  25. M

    Moved and now UHF remote is intolerable

    I moved from an apartment to a townhome, I have one 922 that serves 3 TVs (where only 2 at most are used). The receiver is in the living room downstairs and it works fine in there as well as in my bedroom directly upstairs, in the back half. But the other bedroom is on the front half upstairs...