Recent content by torp74

Awesome help guys, thanks so much. Ok, I get a Dish 1000.2 dish and I am good to go. I won't need switches are anything to go along with it? Also, I will be pretty much in the same local area as I am now, so I think I can keep the locals. I am really just trading a 1 bedroom upstairs apartment...

Thanks for the tips folks, Brussam, thanks for the links, pretty amazing rig you have there. I have a 622, and there are two dishes outside. They are pointed in different directions. I can take all that down and get a couple of tripods, but is there anyway to use just one dish?

Hi everyone, I'm looking to be living in a RV full time starting this fall. I am a DISH HD guy with no more commitment. I have a 622 which is a POS in my opinion, but was wondering how I would go about setting up in the RV. Would I need a different type of account? I've read something about RV...

My 622 has been a POS since the day it was installed. I would be ashamed to put my name on a product like this. Come May I am out of this contract and will be running MythTV. That will be an extra $65 in my pocket every month. torp

I am a HD customer. I called TWC, and they estimate my monthly payment at $101 vice the $127 I am paying now. The channel lineup is close, but DISH has more HD channels (A bunch of them are BS though). I'm thinking saving $26 a month in this economy is not a bad thing. Customer sevrice from both...

I am a somewhat unhappy DISH customer, and I got an add from TWC in the mail yesterday offering my "Surf 'N View" at $76.99. Currently I have TWC for my RR service, and DISH getting the top 200 package with DVR which all together goes for $127.89. So on the surface it looks like I can save $50...

The truth is that this is just low hanging fruit for the salespeople. They have us by the nads. We got the new HDTV or Blu-Ray, we need cables, and we need them right now by god! So, what do you have Mr. Salesperso, oh, you have the $59.99 Monster 6-footer. Is that what I need to get my system...

It appears that you just can't get there from here using the USB bus. I have tried everything from Dataguard to Boot&Nuke, but just can't erase the MBR with the drive connected over the USB bus. I am going to have to find a way to hook this IDE drive up to my SATA connection, and go from there...

I have an old WD 160GB IDE drive that I want to use as an external. I used this drive on an older system bios that had a 32GB limitation, so I used a WD program to see all 160GB. I recently bought an external case for the drive, and have hooked it up, and all I can see is 32GB on the drive. I...

Thanks DISH for another slap in the face of your customers. Par for the course.......

Wow! That HD PVR is awesome. Wonder if Santa should bring me that, or a PS3? Choices, choices...... torp

So this is a software issue? is there a fix available? The system is updating at 2 a.m. every day, but still have the same problem.

My one year old 622 is on the blink. After about 20 minutes one of the tuners video goes out, and I have to hit (swap) to get to the other tuner so I can watch TV. All is good for the 1st 20 minutes or so. I thought at first that the box was over heating. It is setting alone on a shelf, and I...

Well I have "moved" from Laredo to San Antonio. So OTA is not an option for me. What happens in Feb '09 when there is no analog signal?

Yeah. NBC does look like sh&t. My understanding is that WOAI and DISH have some issues. I just changed to KENS 5. It would be nice to see the Sunday night games in HD though. torp