lucky86,
Took your advice and reset the Hopper. My 2 Joeys now are OK. Thanks a lot. Didnt think about doing that in the first place. Just resetting the Joeys didnt do the trick.
FIRST LOOK - Hopper OTA Module
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Took your advice and reset the Hopper. My 2 Joeys now are OK. Thanks a lot. Didnt think about doing that in the first place. Just resetting the Joeys didnt do the trick.
Woo hoo! No problem! The Hopper is what is "feeding" the Joeys. So if I ever have an issue with a Joey, of course I reset that first but the next step is the Hopper and that normally corrects the issues that I run into.
It all depends on how much recording a family does. I would think that once a family has a Hopper they would start recording more than they normally would and then start running into conflicts. Some things you never think you need until you actually have it and use it.
I myself still think that having two 3 tuner receivers is better than having one 5 or 6 tuner receiver.
Hmm.. I don't remember them being *that* much larger. I suppose OTA file sizes vary and shrink when the OTA station squeezes in several extra SD subchannels and cuts into the bandwidth of the main channel. Even with that, the OTA channels in my area are a bit sharper than the same channel over satellite when you view them side by side. This is most likely because the local channels are sending their MPEG2 feed to Dish, and Dish is re-compressing to MPEG4.
The size of "video" from either Dish (i.e. MPEG4 via satellite) or OTA will always be variable. As mentioned above, I have seen a 1-hour program only give back ~20 minutes after I delete it, but that's not always the case. I do think something in the 50% range is reasonably accurate though. Also, someone recorded a lot of programming as a test of MPEG4 vs MPEG2 a couple of years ago and they came up with something closer to 50%. Yes, some were much smaller, in the 33% range, for example, but not consistently.
manteca, when you receive the update, can you post your experience, for us in PR? (signal strength, what channels you receive, etc.)
My OTA dongle just arrived via UPS. Took every bit of 3 minutes to install it and have the system reboot itself. Amazingly it worked perfectly. Usually I am on the phone with customer support after an hour of tinkering and trying to make something new work correctly. This worked correctly out of the box first try. Picture quality and signal strength are excellent.
Someone really smart at the other site has the Firmware Download list that is up on the sat.
http://www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?t=210356&page=2
If I am reading it right ONLY those in the RANGE of there Receiver Card Numbers R1881149252-R1881288030
will get the update tonight.
Do these numbers line up with others that already got it?
Is there a way to automate this report like the Uplink report so we would know daily who and when we are getting updates?
http://www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?t=210356&page=2
If I am reading it right ONLY those in the RANGE of there Receiver Card Numbers R1881149252-R1881288030
will get the update tonight.
Do these numbers line up with others that already got it?
Is there a way to automate this report like the Uplink report so we would know daily who and when we are getting updates?
I am within that range. I received 229 on Tuesday morning, and 230 this morning.
to a very limited number of receivers. If you're still on s222, the only thing to do is wait patiently.
sparc said:
That's where I was going. No need for the person to call tech support, they just gotta wait.
Did they also say they're from Washington, and they're here to help you?
Or they promised not to .........?
