Recent content by brad1138

The 722 was good for a long time, but it's time is gone... What has you so anti Hopper? Having 16+ tuners is pretty nice, and the HD pic quality is better than any pre-Hopper model. Not to mention 4K.

Not sure, likely a cost saving measure.

Yes, I think in April of next year, all international programming will be only available via the internet.

I assumed with the dropping of 129 Dish would go back to the Dish 500 with a new DPH or DPZ lnb. But I have yet to see one. When we tried to order them a few months back from Dish, they shipped us 500+s :rolleyes:. What is worse, they sent us 500+s w/o a 110 bracket, so they are really useless...

It is surprising how poor of a job roofers do when putting these back....

So you are saying, "Soon".... ;)

More power to you, but these were pieces of junk 25 years ago. I can't imagine they would work on any level these days...

Hope so....

Wallys "can" be a real pain in the rear. A couple things to check, make sure it isn't stuck in the "tuner 0" glitch. Go to the signal strength screen, and make sure tuner 1 is selected, then try the the switch check again. It can take a bit of "smacking it around" (so to speak) to get past that...

66 is actually very good signal strength. It goes to 125 for no good reason, I think the strongest I have ever seen, on a spot beam transponder with a large commercial grade dish was upper 70s. When I install a dish, I am perfectly happy with a signal in the 50s. It is very unlikely you could...

They are, but that moca runs over coax just as everything else in the setup.

Depends on how it is all connected now, how many joeys do you have? But it doesn't really matter, the cable that runs a HWS now, will run a joey after the upgrade, no issues.

As others have said, Hopper 3 is the way to go. So much better than 2xHWS.

Went out on a service call for a Wally/Tailgater yesterday (1st problem was TV was on wrong input). We hadn't had any RV service calls in a few months, and I hadn't thought much about it, but I assumed dish would have had a software fix for the tailgater 129 issue by now.... Nope, software...

My bad, I live on the West coast and forget that plenty of people can see 61.5. Around here it is at an 8 degree elevation and next to impossible to see. Yes it should work fine assuming you can see it.