Recent content by iridium111

After visiting here for the first time in a few months and reading this thread, I'm thinking in retrospect that I ran into this problem back in September/October and my installer accidentally found his way to the solution without knowing the real cause...

Replying with the resolution of the issue: After our Sandy-spawned blizzard, reception was out with the cold temperatures most of the week. Described the problem to the installer (along with a few pictures of the check switch screens just in case it 'resolved' itself temporarily before he...

The status screen errors and shows one red box for 129, with the other satellites not even listed (at other times 119 was the one listed.) No mention of LNB drift anywhere. 'Details' just mentions multiple signal losses within the last few hours. One new thing that I noticed while doing this...

I received my 2 Hopper / 1 Joey combo back in June to replace my VIP receivers and everything has been absolutely great until the last few weeks. I'm experiencing an odd issue where one of the Hoppers (the one by itself) is intermittently losing reception. Here are the facts: 1000.2 system...

I would also appreciate it if a DIRT member PMs me about an upgrade. Looking at going from (2) 612s + (1) 211k to 2H + 2J.

Many thanks for all the great and helpful responses so far. I'm looking at a 3-room setup with HD+SD+SD receivers (no duo -- all singles). Running the three separate lines outside and just discarding the splitter is not really an issue for me -- I can do that without hassle at all. It's...

Hello everyone -- I was just about to make the move from Comcast to Dish when I began to read this forum and found out that RG59 was inadequate for satellite. After checking the wiring in my crawlspace last night here's what I found: 1. Main line from outside to splitter in crawlspace is...