Recent content by garyg007

It is now a non issue - I will be a Dish customer come April 13.

At random intervals my HR21 decides that it cannot find any satellite siginals; two other basic receivers have no trouble finding signals, Red reset button or a power disconnect reset solves the problem and the DVR starts working again. The problem is the this happens way to frequently -...

First, a little history why I do not think I am out of line with this rant. I retired a few years ago after spending nearly 40 years working with computers;all the way from an IBM602a to the IBM 9400. I wired control panels on the earlier equipment and wrote programs in nearly a dozen...

jhaifley --- Changed to Bridge networking, and the stb is found ok.; Now all I have to do is figureout if I can get the virtual machine graphics adaptor to handle the protected content. Thanks for the suggestion. Gary

Thanks for the reply, jhaifley; the VM network adapter is setup as .NAT. I'll see if I can get "briged" to work. Had some problems with it first time I tried, (don't remember what they were) MARK: I completely lost network connection to the HR21 since the last time I tried to use it...

So, Mark, what is the suggestion? was yours running fine from XP on a virtual machine?

I am running windows xp/sp2 on Sun's virtualbox virtual machine manager on a LINUX operating system. Directv2pc installed without any problem; I have an HR21 DVR; I can ping the DVR from XP, but directv2pc cannot find the DVR. Any suggestions? Gary

Thanks for all the info and comments; Directv "escalated" my problem. I was visited by one of the more knowledgeable techs this morning, and the HD reception acted up for him (we have a winter weather advisory in effect, and it is in the low 30'sw). After checking all of the connectors and...

Thank you for the info. -------------------- @Zynergi, mental1 Thank you, Gary.

Temperature issue with an LNB One more question and I'll let you all alone. On the day I checked signal strengths mid afternoon and again late at night, It was a warn sunny day (mid 60's), (the antenna takes direct sunlight in the afternoon). Late evening the temp had dropped into the low...

FWIW: Satellite 103(c) Signal strengths at 4:00 PM EDT 1-8 96,95,94,88,95,93,90,88 9-14 93,92,88,90,94,92 Satellite 103(c) Signal strengths at 11:00 PM EDT 1-8 73,73,70,67,71,70,67,66 9-14 71,69,67,67,70,70

@Jimbo Does not look like it. By one of those special Hi-def cables @Zynergi I had some issues with the HR21, so was using one of the D12's in its place for about a week and a half. The tech couldn't find anything wrong with the hr21 when re-attached it...

Thankyou all for the info and suggestions. @Jimbo I'll take a look at the connectors later today to see if they were replaced. ---- Any way to tell which satellite and transponders The Hi Def signals of the local stations are on (ie channels 3, 5, 8 in the cleveland ohio service...

Thanks, for the reply, Chip; Replacing the cable is not an option. I'm not up to tearing up the woodwork and paneling necessary to get a new line in. A few of the HD channels are watchable; That leads me to believe that the problem is signal strength. The question is whether the signal...

Thank you mental1; I just took another look at the installation; The last tech that came out last Monday, made some significant changes in the wiring at the dish (I was not home; my son was here with him). It now looks like what you describe . There are two dual lines running from the dish...