HOPPER 3 UPGRADES
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Good to see the first hopper 3 to be installed by a member in Alabama
Can't install it yet,
Can't even activate it. I can look at it though, LOL
I work in Birmingham, which is 72 miles SE of where I live, so I drive about 150 miles a day. Get up about 3:30, leave about 4:30, go to work at 6:00, and leave at 4:30.You got to be kidding me!!
OUCH!!Can't install it yet,
Dang, makes me happy when I can take advantage of one of the many perks of working from home....
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I work for Social Security as a Claims Authorizer at a Program Center. They have started a pilot program with a few employees to telework up to 2 days a week. They keep saying they are going to expand it, so maybe they will start to let everybody do it that wants to. I do a 4 day 10 hour schedule and am off on Friday, so it's not that bad. Would be nice to get to do even one day of telework though.Dang, makes me happy when I can take advantage of one of the many perks of working from home....
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Dang, makes me happy when I can take advantage of one of the many perks of working from home....
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Same here. I don't work from home but I can be in my house within 5 minutes from leaving work.
That, my friend, is one hell of a commute. I used to do that sometimes in LA, but for leisure activities
Traffic is only bad getting out of the city center, once I get to I22, it is smooth sailing about 80 mph all the way home. I just live about 5 miles off of the Interstate so it's a pretty good drive. Before they had that Interstate from Memphis to Birmingham, it used to take close to 1.75-2.0 hours. Had to go through little towns, speed traps, redlights. I live where I was raised and have a nice place and quite a bit of land, so I have never wanted to live in "the city."That, my friend, is one hell of a commute. I used to do that sometimes in LA, but for leisure activities
You can go ahead and swap out the LNB and node. Then be ready to call Dish at 12:01am on whatever date they go live.Can't install it yet,
Yep. Should be able to hook up the whole system up until the point where it tells you to call and activate it. Although I'm not sure about it's initial download though.
I just talked with a Dish installer today, he was adding a joey at my house. He said they actually have had the Hopper 3 boxes for several weeks in their warehouse waiting for a launch date, which was supposed to be today! He said it got pushed back a few more days, he is guessing within a week it will launch. A couple of extra tidbits, For current hopper installations there are 2 coax cables coming from dish, new hopper3 will only require 1 for all 16 tuners, and the node has to be switched out with something new (so it's not going to be super quick install). And for the bad news, he said the new "voice activated" remote isn't ready so it's going to come with the touch screen remote with the voice part. Not sure if he meant, the voice hardware won't be in the remote or won't be enabled? Anyway, take this for what it's worth, hearsay. Oh yeah, the dish will have to be pointed back to the western arch. Last year in Indiana they moved our dish to the eastern arch due to "an overload" as he called it.
Im not trying to be rude here but all of this information has been pretty well known here for a little while.
It will either fail to download, which means no activation, or there's software available for it (old, not current, or updated ??).
A receiver isn't an investment. Using it should have some value for the person. Even if you throw it in the trash when you're done, you ask, "did I get my money's worth out of it?".
