Recent content by traustic

I have an old wireless bridge that works if all clients connected have manual network settings enabled. Nothing is grabbed from the dhcp server off the primary router/modem from any client that is connected to this unit. Is there a setting I'm missing on my wireless bridge or my modem? Is...

Looking for some personal experiences with using sling to view live tv and recordings to another room without the extra cost of the Joey. Is it acceptable or too cumbersome? The second TV will be in my daughters room and probably play some babyfirst videos and live tv. The joey with no...

3 years ago: DirectTv guy was too large to fit through my 2'x2' attic hole and wanted to run a cable across my ceiling and drop it down in the corner of a wall by the TV. Attic work area was 5' tall in center. I pulled the wire myself and fed it through the wall for the DTV tech. 2 months...

Would an HDMI splitter work? Provided the rooms are side-by-side this would be an easy option to mirror the output to two rooms. http://sewelldirect.com/Sewell-HDMI-1x2-Splitter-v13b.asp It will use the highest common resolution between televisions. So if you have one tv at 720 and one at...

I would explore the wireless bridge path provided you have wireless access to your internet.

I inquired about a 2nd hopper and the rep said it would be 200 tolease. I told them forget about it as you can own a hopper for 350.

When you select to save series from PTAT episodes does this disble autohop? I've noticed most of the series I have saved do not have autohop available but they were recorded via PTAT.

lol you guys are brutal... Yes east arc and west arc - just curious because all information on pointing a dish talks out 119 as the center point and 110 and 129 as the outer sats. Most posts mention signals as low as mid 70s up to mid 90s. Using the lower sats 61.5 and 72 I have not seen...

I was recently installed last week and have noticed some slight signal quality issues. Checking dish alignment I'm getting readings from 51 to 53 on sat 72 and 62 on sat 61.5. Should I use 119 to realign and balance 110 and 129 with the skew for an improved signal? I just have to program...

Going back to the directv autohop mentioning. Eight years ago I owned something called a replaytv 5040. I used two serial cables db9 to control two sd set top boxes for channel control. The unit downloaded the guide information from their serverthat had the directv guide so it could change...

I was installed last week with one hopper and no joeys. Im interested in a second hopper and no joeys. I have one tv and would like six tuners instead of three. Need to know the price for the second unit.

Man that is the truth. My installer didn't connect a solo node so I was only able to use two tuners on my hopper. I asked him about it and he said single hopper installs with no joeys only use two tuners. In hindsight I think he was trying to lie to me because he didn't have a solo node in...

I've only been using my hopper for a few hours but no issues since the installation has been properly completed. I can record three channels at once and the sling works perfect on home network and 4g. I'm impressed but need more time to validate my experience thusfar. For 35 a month it's a...

Tech showed up again but didn't have a node to install. He said he could come by tomorrow but I was going to be unavailable. I told him just drop off a node tonight and I'll install it. I install vsat equipment pretty much every week so it was no big deal. I do not work for directv or dish...

Thanks guys. The technician just called and is coming back by the put the node where the grounding block is used. Seems like a nice guy but he has only been doing it 3 weeks. He has some promise of learning the ropes. I'm familiar with the node after reading the pdf so I can supervise it is...