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  • WELCOME TO THE NEW SERVER!

    If you are seeing this you are on our new server WELCOME HOME!

    While the new server is online Scott is still working on the backend including the cachine. But the site is usable while the work is being completes!

    Thank you for your patience and again WELCOME HOME!

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    Another new cord cutter!

    FWIW, we get about 50 OTA channels here. Lots to record.
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    Another new cord cutter!

    I did deal with it right away. I had to call them every single month for the last 2 years. The CSR would always say, "Oh, I see right here that you made the payment." The next month same thing would happen. After they thought "they had me" that's when i asked, what month would you like me to...
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    Another new cord cutter!

    No, it's a Tivo Bolt and we got a Mini for the bedroom.
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    Another new cord cutter!

    I know I won't hurt Dish, not when Charlie can spend a couple of billion dollars buying all the wi-fi bandwidth, Hughes Satellite, Blockbuster, etc. My problem is when he blows all that cash and cries that he has to raise the rates again. If he can buy all of those things then we're paying him...
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    Another new cord cutter!

    The money goes in his wallet, right? I'm not speaking to Kiana the CSR. She's Charlie's problem.
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    Another new cord cutter!

    That was exactly my thoughts too. They offered me the sun, moon and stars not to leave. I looked at the wife and said loud enough for them to hear, "Do you want to keep giving Dish money?" And she answered Hell no! That was it. I was tired of paying for 230 channels I didn't watch, tired of...
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    Another new cord cutter!

    Do you work for Dish? LOL
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    Another new cord cutter!

    FWIW, I started my career 37 years ago on the space shuttles and just about everything else aerospace that you ever heard the name of. Credit card bills aren't beyond my scope. ;)
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    Another new cord cutter!

    Well everyone, I did it finally. I wasn't even thinking about it until a girl at Dish named Kiana decided to screw me on my bill. For the last whole year Dish kept telling me I was a month behind on my bill and hence charging me late fees every single month, making the already over-priced bill...
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    did Dish change recording "new and reruns" behavior lately?

    I get the same things on a couple of different shows. I have "At Midnight" with Chris Hardwick on Comedy Central set for NEW and it records both shows every night (9 and 11). If I try to delete one version, it deletes both. I forget the other shows offhand, but a couple of shows with 2 nightly...
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    Wireless Joey without Dish WAP

    I recently bought a wireless Joey off Ebay and hooked it up without a WAP. I just had to call Dish to activate it. I also have a regular Joey that I put a dongle on. It was very s-l-o-w. So bad that I regrettably went back to the wire.
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    Wireless Joey

    I recently got a wireless Joey for our daughter. Dish wanted to renew our contract so I bought one off Ebay for $50 and set it up myself. It's $7 a month extra. One interesting thing, the wireless Joey works much faster and normally than a regular Joey with a wireless dongle. I took the dongle...
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    Hopper - will 3 tuners be enough?

    I had 8 tuners 20 years ago and could have used more at times. Actually, my setup was a 10 foot dish with 4DTV and a stack of VCR's with 8-hour tapes in each. I would set it to a particular satellite for the time of day, then record all of the transponders I wanted on that sat. Switch to a...
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    Netflix app can't connect from Hopper with Sling.

    FWIW, I got mine in about 10 minutes, but I have a 65 meg cable connection, sooo... ;)
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    Western Arc problems this afternoon?

    Has the tech been out? What was the verdict?
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