Recent content by sharoni

Not mifi, by the way. Just really horrible Windstream internet with nothing else available in my rural area right now.

There wasn't any way to check anything on my system last night because now the Hopper doesn't start up at all. I have a green light, but other than that... nothing. We turned in a request for a technician on Wednesday but they won't be here until sometime on Saturday. So much for college...

My guess is that it's a problem with the Hopper and possibly the nightly updates. I can't see a reason that adding the wireless connection would cause the problem that we're seeing, but it shouldn't be too hard to check that out this evening.

I didn't enter a password. I connected by using the WPS button on the router, but I'll see if there's a way to change it.

I thought about that, but during the short time that I actually had a signal, I didn't find a way to turn off the automatic connection to wireless. It may be there, but if so it is hidden.

We've had several different Dish receivers over many years, but recently were upgraded to a Hopper and 2 Joeys. This worked very well for 2 weeks, and I decided to connect to our wireless router. No problem. The next day we woke up to a black screen. I went through the troubleshooting steps...