Recent content by masher

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    genie amber ethernet led

    I took ethernet out of genie, and hooked up the deca like the installer had left it.
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    genie amber ethernet led

    Helps a lot ,thanks. I looked over the coax yesterday.The installer had a trainee with him I don't know what ends he did, but I did find a few where the ends weren't fully inserted into connector, and had long stingers.I was able to push them in, and cut the stingers.I just have the one on the...
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    genie amber ethernet led

    Got my genie hooked up via ethernet , it works, but I always get dropped connections error when testing.I also have amber lights at the dvr itself.I usually have the router in the utility closet.I ran cat 5 to the dvr location, with jacks at both ends. I moved the router next to the genie to see...
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    just got genie, vod won't get past 0

    Thanks for the help, looks much cleaner now.I got rid of the deca, and all its wiring, a coax splitter and 2 coax jumpers.It all seems to be working fine, I can pick up recorded content in all the rooms so I guess all is good. It did take a while for the content to reappear, and reload.
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    just got genie, vod won't get past 0

    After posting last night I played around with the router,didn't really change anything,pinged stbs,and whatnot, but I did reset the dvr 2x, and somehow it started to work.I downloaded 2 boardwakl empire episodes in a few hours. Today my wife tried to watch something on showtime on demand and got...
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    just got genie, vod won't get past 0

    Just had dtv installed 3 days ago.Tried vod tonight, but can't get it to start downloading past 0%. The installer and his trainee installed a deca adapter at the genie with the ethernet connected to the adapter not the dvr. I was told at sign up they would install a cck , but my understanding...