Recent content by sidekickkdx

I broke down and bought a 50 foot Ethernet cable and connected my router directly to the back of the hopper. After enabling bridging I was able to get everything working on the Joeys. So I think the node and hopper are fine. Must be the HIC or the wiring between the HIC and the hopper. I'll...

Well I connected the hopper to the router (using HIC since I don't have a long Ethernet cable), and then unplugged/replugged the Joeys. The Joeys were linked to the hopper as far as watching tv is concerned, but I got a message saying that I need an internet connection when I tried to open...

Hi All, I have a problem that I can't seem to figure out. I have one Hopper and two Joeys. When I connect the Hopper to the internet via WiFi, the Hopper and Joeys are linked. However, I do not wish to use WiFi for the system at all. So I disconnected the WiFi connection and connected a...

Well, I connected the hopper to the network again using the 5 Ghz band. I also changed the wireless channel on my router (for the 2.4 Ghz band-which my laptop uses) from "auto" to 1. Now everything seems fine. Hopefully it will stay that way. If not I'll try an Ethernet cable.

I just had a hopper and 2 joeys installed and my wireless connection on my laptop went from 9 Mbps download down to 3 Mbps. I disconnected the hopper from my network (which was harder to do than you would think) and speeds went back up to 9 Mbps. I called Dish Network and they said it wasn't...