Recent content by fordt

Yup, TRIED to get the extra receiver, should have ordered it when the first operator was going to let me, but this thread is dead, as is my Direct TV order. But thanks for EVERYONES input, this is what forums are for!

NBC is back on, that lasted about 5 days, I guess them and Sinclair Networks (the rebroadcaster) settled things...but I was ready to change, would have saved a bunch, but no option for the mancave shut it down..

They did offer it for free, 2 days ago with another customer rep, wife suggested i just keep calling until i got one who did! But I've been with them before and will probably be again, they just need to come up with something that works better in a remote location around your house...

Well, so much for all that work...called Dtv to get the additional receiver for the shop and they stated that I could get additional minis, but no just plain hd receiver. Seems like it depends who you get on the phone with these operators, but I was on hold for 5 minutes when he came back and...

All right, the dish is installed on the shop! The current LNB on it is a SL3K..., with 4 coax connectors, does it matter which one I hook the cable to? Figured if I did that, all the installer would have to do is point and adjust for signal....Thanks for all the great advice!

Yikes, don't have to worry about issue 2 since I'm just getting the basic Xtra packag. So I guess I should install the dish on the shop before the installer gets here and see if he can make sure the LNB (it is a four prong) will work with the extra receiver....or at least point me toward the...

I can install the dish, done that a bunch with my own and other folks'. So I reckon I can add in one more plain jane hd receiver to my account for $6.50, get the installer to make sure it works in the house, then install the slimline dish I already have on the shop and the mancave is setup.....

Just changing over from Dish, installer gets here next week. And I have a leftover slimline dish from moving a friend out of his apt...getting a Genie DVR and one mini genie for the main house....

I'll hit 'em up again tomorrow and try to explain what the heck I'm doing.....seems like all I should pay is an extra $6.50/mo.....thanks!

I've got dishes I can install, the little lady at the other end of the phone said another receiver AND dish would cost me another account, I wouldn't have minded another $6.50/mo for just a simple HD receiver but was told another separate dish would cost me more....

Well, just talked to DTV about adding another receiver out there with another dish, but that would make me set up another account with all the applicable fees...so that don's save me any...I reckon either Vulkano or Sling might be the only way to get TV in the mancave....well, short of digging...

No, i just want to sit in the mancave and watch football for hours....yup, i could put another dish up, but then that entails buying another receiver? (and maybe ANOTHER monthly fee added in?), and that may be what i eventually have to do unless I decide to trench a coax out there. But I live in...

Well, the theory may be better, but my network reaches the shop with Dish just through a dongle that connects to the Dish Joey......if my new Direct TV doesn't reach out there on its own network, burying coax sure ain't easier. But I think I can probably "sling" it over there, I have a friend...

With the wifi I have in the shop, will a Vulkano unit working thru a laptop put Direct tv out there?

Bummer, I guess that's one thing Dish has over Direct, but I reckon I can bury one eventually....at least I'll have local national channels that aren't "turned off" because one rich company is arguing with another one....