Recent content by britorto

As a tech, there are truly customers out there that cannot troubleshoot. They usually are elderly, handicapped mentally or physically, or just can't follow instructions verbally. I went to a trouble call yesterday, guys water heater broke so he screwed with the diplexer and swapped the lines...

You can put up dish pro singles. Split the lines before the switch and have a set of 3 switches cascaded and a set of 2 cascaded. Just make sure it's split before the 44 switches and they go to the same port on the sets of switches. You will need power inserters on all 5 switchss. Posted Via...

That would be close to impossible. As stated earlier stacked closets could work. Is the basement finished? If so that makes it even worse. Cosmetically the best id offer without charging would be dish on roof. Run the cable behind a downspout, if its a single hopper job id run 3 lines. 2 for the...

How big of a tv? I have a 38" mounted on a full motion mount. With just two lags into a stud, that's it.

Signal strengths used to be based on a scale to 125. Not anymore. From what I can tell you signals don't look bad to me.

Smart home dish techs do carry cat 5 on their vans as well as being trained to terminate cat5. Personally one of my managers has a Joey connected with cat6 and he says it runs better then the other joeys. It's unsupported because it's to much of an outside risk. Customers router fries, now the...

I thought I heard in training that you could possibly have 4 or 5 linked. Not supported by dish though would have to buy joeys.

Looks good. Technically, well at least in my area putting a ground block or node in a crawl space is a mark off on a quality inspection. Doesn't make sense to me, but that being said looks like good work would've done the same. Glad your dish got concrete put in, that's a definite problem...

If I were the tech out their, I'd change a couple fittings. Run a new line to hopper, tack the node and splitter into the wood. Cable itself doesn't really need tacked all the way there up in the wood. I'd cut that extra crap out as well if requested.

Is that a trailer or crawl space?

Try antenna channel 22. Seems to have the best picture due to lowest frequency.

Most cases throw a new pole down the center of the old pole, throw a couple pinch bolts in and be good. The real question is how many lines are trenched.

If I were the tech on the call i would eliminate the switch. Throw up a 1000.2, and use the three sat feeds. No need for a switch unless you have 4 boxes. If you don't it's just something else in the line that could fail.

Could be a bad node, i had this issue on my own system and I'm a tech. I replaced cable to the hopper since i used the old cable being lazy since it was my own house figured I'd just run new if I had problems. After replacing the node I had green moca, until the hic became active. The hic itself...

Everytime I've seen loss of tuner 3 on a single hopper system, it's been the node. You should be able to get the connector onto the node completely tightened until it needs wrench tightened. Cross threading of those connectors can cause that tuner 3 loss. Plus, with that cable, it would need...