Coming here to vent a bit, and also see if any of you experts have any advice for what, if anything, I can do to remedy my frustrations with Dish. Below is a list of ongoing problems that I have with my Hopper (original version) and Joeys (original version). If any of you can provide resolutions to any of the below issues, it would be very much appreciated. If not, it may be time to move along...though I don't know where I would go...
-Hopper and Joey menus are extremely laggy and painfully slow, as is channel switching. Several seconds for my guide to populate, for it to register a page up/down command, and when I select a channel, it takes a very long time for the guide to go away and the selected channel to be tuned. Upwards of 4-5 seconds
-Joey's constantly need to be reset after they go into standby mode. No remote button presses will wake them, no matter what (and no, it's not a remote or battery issue)
-Joey sometimes will come on from standby, but doesn't actually send out a signal to the TV. Power cycle required on the Joey to get a signal (maybe an HDMI handshake issue?)
-Hopper is in master bedroom because that TV doesn't have HDMI inputs (and my joey's only have HDMI outputs), and is quite loud. The clickity clack of the Hard Drive is very noticeable and annoying from bed. Additionally, every other night or so, it resets itself at about 1AM and makes a very loud whooshing sound when it does so. Kind of like it's ramps up the fans inside it to full speed for a few seconds. It's enough to wake me every time it happens
-I have a dish sling attached to the Hopper. I'm only able to get it to work remotely about 7% of the time
-Guide doesn't recognize page up command, unless I first press channel down command
-Does it's nightly reset even when I tell it not to when it pops up the warning when I'm still watching TV
-Joeys occasionally put up a message that they are not connected to a hopper...reset required to fix
And I could go on. I haven't followed these forums, so I don't know if I just have a crappy unit(s), or if these are all things others have and I'm just being too sensitive.
Any ideas on potential fixes? Does the Hopper 2 and Super joey fix any of the above issues?
OK, that's long enough. Thanks in advance for your help. I really do appreciate it.
C
-Hopper and Joey menus are extremely laggy and painfully slow, as is channel switching. Several seconds for my guide to populate, for it to register a page up/down command, and when I select a channel, it takes a very long time for the guide to go away and the selected channel to be tuned. Upwards of 4-5 seconds
-Joey's constantly need to be reset after they go into standby mode. No remote button presses will wake them, no matter what (and no, it's not a remote or battery issue)
-Joey sometimes will come on from standby, but doesn't actually send out a signal to the TV. Power cycle required on the Joey to get a signal (maybe an HDMI handshake issue?)
-Hopper is in master bedroom because that TV doesn't have HDMI inputs (and my joey's only have HDMI outputs), and is quite loud. The clickity clack of the Hard Drive is very noticeable and annoying from bed. Additionally, every other night or so, it resets itself at about 1AM and makes a very loud whooshing sound when it does so. Kind of like it's ramps up the fans inside it to full speed for a few seconds. It's enough to wake me every time it happens
-I have a dish sling attached to the Hopper. I'm only able to get it to work remotely about 7% of the time
-Guide doesn't recognize page up command, unless I first press channel down command
-Does it's nightly reset even when I tell it not to when it pops up the warning when I'm still watching TV
-Joeys occasionally put up a message that they are not connected to a hopper...reset required to fix
And I could go on. I haven't followed these forums, so I don't know if I just have a crappy unit(s), or if these are all things others have and I'm just being too sensitive.
Any ideas on potential fixes? Does the Hopper 2 and Super joey fix any of the above issues?
OK, that's long enough. Thanks in advance for your help. I really do appreciate it.
C
