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    Replace rented HWS hard drive

    Been there. Done that. Bad experiences. So what if they notice that the seal was broken! I would be doing them and us a favor.
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    Replace rented HWS hard drive

    We're getting more frequent HD failure messages on one of our old, rented HWSs, so it's decision time. H3 is a reasonable option, but it's not the best time for us. I know that it's easy to replace the HD, what would be the fallout if I did it myself on a rented HWS? I could save the old one...
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    Only two days of guide data

    I wonder how many hundred threads have been started over the years on this subject. Yet I've never seen a "solution" other than reset _____, pull the plug, or put it in sleep mode. Why should any of those trial and error actions be considered "solutions?" It's ridiculous that that for a...
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    East, West... Does it matter?

    Thanks, crodrules. I had been thinking something similar but not as long range yet. I was hoping that the tech could position the 1000.2 and 500 to catch all three on the eastern arc. Pretty sure that can be done. Upgrading to a Hopper 3 has been on my mind, since we have a 4K set. However...
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    East, West... Does it matter?

    Really!?? I'll have to check out that configuration to see whether we would be missing something important with the current assignments. Our locals, including SD, are on only 61.5 and 110. HOWEVER, what's to keep the dish heads from moving the locals or other channels to 77?
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    East, West... Does it matter?

    Thanks, but (1) I'm ignorant on this hardware stuff, and (2) we don't own the equipment. All I know from the diagnostics page is that we have a duo node with a DPP1K.2 switch, and from looking at the dishes the one pointing at 72.7 is a 500 (don't see a + anywhere), and the one pointing at 110...
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    East, West... Does it matter?

    Sorry. I should have mentioned that we have two HWS and one old Joey. None of our locals are on 77 or 129. I don't know about the hopper confusion issue, but based upon past history, the four orbitals proposed would theoretically work. I'm just worried that yet another nonstandard...
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    East, West... Does it matter?

    I need some insight into how Dish assigns channels to it's satellite orbitals and what the future should look like. For almost a year we've seen HD channels dropping off of our program guide due to uplink changes, and I didn't have time to analyze the potential solutions until now. In over...
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    Confirmed, H3 now supports 3 EHD's at the same time

    Nice! What USB3 switch are you using?
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    DISH 2016 CES Press Event

    Scott, is the 2.0 Joey different from the Super Joey? I assumed so and called DISH tech support to inquire about availability/cost. Initially he said that there are only the original Joey and the Super Joey. He also said that switching to a Super Joey would not improve its response. (When I...
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    CES 2016 PR: DISH’s HopperGO Takes 100 Hours of DVR Recordings On The Go

    Sorry. I was looking at the HopperGo pictures in the first post. I realize now that what's labeled INPUT looks like a micro-USB jack. The scale and shape are clearly not HDMI. What's labeled OUTPUT is a USB jack. Is the micro jack for the USB 3.0 signal coming from the Hopper and the USB...
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    CES 2016 PR: DISH’s HopperGO Takes 100 Hours of DVR Recordings On The Go

    Wh What's the HDMI connection for? Thanks Scott for the great reporting!
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    DISH 2016 CES Press Event

    With 2 HWS and 2 Joeys I hate to watch anything on a TV attached to a Joey. The Joey response to its remote is so slow that it's a real pain skipping commercials. Unless there's a Joey improvement I haven't seen here, switching to 1 H3 and 3 Joeys doesn't seem like an improvement, even with...
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    Replacement HWS is acting up

    Those are the same symptoms I had with a replacement HWS. It worked OK for 16 days and began to stutter, pixelate, and freeze, sometimes to the point where I had to pull the power cord. No problems with live TV, unless I tried to skip backwards or forwards. I requested a second replacement...
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    Questionable cause of HWS hard drive failure message

    At this point, I would be happy if they would just monitor the S.M.A.R.T. parameters and warn us when the drive shows signs of failure. One week into replacement unit #2 and counting!
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