Recent content by HotLZ

Bison and Gopher fan. Can't stand the Sue. Yep, that's how all the Sue haters spell it!

I live in Fargo, ND, a border city with Moorhead, MN and since there is no Big 10 school in ND, I don't get the Big 10 network. However, people right across the river in Moorhead MN subscribers do get it. Same DMA, so no problem there. Can I change my service address or my billing address to...

Finally. But no ABC. Bummer, but I guess I'll take what I can.

Why stop at setting it? Why not watch it too?:eek: Works good for pointing OTA antennas too.

If you use a slingbox and have a smartphone, you can put sling mobile on it and watch TV. OK, no news flash there. However, I discovered that it also works very well if you need to tweak your dish for signal strengths. You can just put it on the point dish screen and see what your changes do...

I have struggled mightily trying to get dishcomm to work through homeplug. They just won't see each other. I got a slingbox for christmas, and to get it on my home network, I used a slinglink, which is their version of homeplug. Well that didn't work for crap either. Slow connection speeds...

Ok, here's a couple more screenshots that I took this evening. I'll chance the receiver #'s. Notice that the strengths are good now, versus poor before. Don't get why that's changing. Also, sometimes a device named homeplug will appear on the test, and after aobut 10 seconds or so change to...

Yeah, that's probably a good idea. Done.

At the risk of sounding really stupid, what do you mean by that?

Ok, there's some weird stuff going on today. When I go to do the tests on each receiver, I'm seeing the three devices in the test, and then one of them will change after about 10 seconds. Never seen that before. It will change from homeplug device to something that starts with a T on the mac...

Yes I have done the test from both receivers. Before I hooked up the homeplug ethernet adaptor, the tests would show only the receiver that I was running the test from. After the adaptor was hooked up, it shows both receivers and the homeplug. But the remote receiver still shows up only as...

My ethernet ports are unused on both receivers. The only way they are getting IP addresses is through the homeplug on the receivers. The homeplug is the only way they can get onto my home network to get an IP as I don't have an ethernet cable hooked up to them. So that tells me that the...

Well, the tech from Dish came over this morning to fix my dishcomm issue. However, he knew far less about it than I did. He didn't even know what homeplug was. I asked him if he had a homeplug to ethernet adaptor in his truck so we could test the homeplug in each receiver. He said he...

I just plugged the receiver into the outlet. Nothing else was connected, i.e., no sat. signal in, not video signal out, so I couldn't do any testing on that box.

Ok, this morning I went so far as to take the upstairs 722 and physically bring it downstairs and plug it directly into the same outlet as the 722 down there, thinking maybe when I tried that with an extension cord it wouldn't work with a cord that long. Still no luck, same offline status. Of...