As I mentioned in a previous post, I had twenty-year-old mess of wires, switches and splitters under my house and my wife wanted me to move/change the receivers around in our house so I gutted most everything and installed new wiring pretty much everywhere. I left the main coax from my antenna and from my dishes to the Dish Network switches in my basement and I left the main run to my master bedroom so I had a good run in case something went wrong with what I was doing.
Well, I got finished and everything looked good so I moved my VIP722 DVR receiver from my master bedroom to a new run in my living room. When I first turned the receiver on, I got no signal. Before freaking out too much, I reset the unit and waiting for it to reacquire the signal. It seemed to work but I could only pickup channel 120, History Channel and maybe a select few others close to there. If I tried to swtich to anything much higher, say anything in the 200s, I'd get a blank screen and then I'd get the complete signal loss message. If I pulled up the guide I could get back to History Channel and it would work. I thought I'd made up a bad cable or something. I went back to the basement and disconnected and reconnected my two satellite out wires from my switch to my receiver. When I went back, I seemed to have good signal on pretty much every channel I checked. OK, I had a good clear picture on History Channel and everything else I checked, so that leads me to think my cabling is good. I don't know why things acted up but it's working now so, I'm good. Now when I get up this morning and turn everything on, I'm right back to the same old thing. History Channel and over the air signals are the only channels I can get to work. I love History Channel but I'd like a little bit more.
I didn't get a chance to move my receiver back to my "good" run to check it out from there and I plan to do that tonight.
Does this strange behavior sound familiar to anyone or does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks guys.
- Byron Followell
Well, I got finished and everything looked good so I moved my VIP722 DVR receiver from my master bedroom to a new run in my living room. When I first turned the receiver on, I got no signal. Before freaking out too much, I reset the unit and waiting for it to reacquire the signal. It seemed to work but I could only pickup channel 120, History Channel and maybe a select few others close to there. If I tried to swtich to anything much higher, say anything in the 200s, I'd get a blank screen and then I'd get the complete signal loss message. If I pulled up the guide I could get back to History Channel and it would work. I thought I'd made up a bad cable or something. I went back to the basement and disconnected and reconnected my two satellite out wires from my switch to my receiver. When I went back, I seemed to have good signal on pretty much every channel I checked. OK, I had a good clear picture on History Channel and everything else I checked, so that leads me to think my cabling is good. I don't know why things acted up but it's working now so, I'm good. Now when I get up this morning and turn everything on, I'm right back to the same old thing. History Channel and over the air signals are the only channels I can get to work. I love History Channel but I'd like a little bit more.
I didn't get a chance to move my receiver back to my "good" run to check it out from there and I plan to do that tonight.
Does this strange behavior sound familiar to anyone or does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks guys.
- Byron Followell