Recent content by wasii

not the tech's fault It's not the tech's fault that E* wants to charge me $99. Being in the service industry myself - I can appreciate being the bearer of bad news. I can imagine you guys catch the brunt more times than not. Unfortunately, this isn't anything I can fix myself... the box...

clarification Yes, I'm "renting" or "leasing" their equipment... whatever you want to call it. Just your Joe Schmo average Dish customer. I went ahead and got the $5.99 service agreement, and as soon as they make the repairs I'll cancel it - way ahead of ya there. In fact, that's literally...

Anyone else experience this? Luckily, for some reason I've never had any major problems with my 522 and accompanying switches, wires, dish, etc... I started getting drop outs and a reduction in signal strength on satellite 105, and the check switch test is showing an error. So I called...

Take some time and read other postings on this site. Your USB port is worthless; non-functional. You may as well plug it into your car's cigarette lighter... you'll get the same results.

I love the textbook responses they give you for obvious problems.... Power it off/on, check the dish, check the cables... Yeah. Thanks. I'll re-install Windows while I'm at it. Since when did DishNetwork become Microsoft?

I was fortunate until recently.. I have had very few problems with my 522 (only the occassional glitch/audio dropout/pixelization/etc...) until the past month. I woke up Saturday morning about 3 weeks ago and found all of our recordings and timers erased. I wrote it off as my 2 year old...

You're 100% correct. I should have looked in the main area for the info first. How appropriate that several people wasted everyone's time to tell me that I wasted everyone's time. In fact, I just wasted more of everyone's time. I will certainly try not to let that happen again in the future...

I've had the random recording problem also - mine usually occurs on a channel that's already set to record at a different program at a different time, but not always. And the program naming problem that Bizzach referred to is also occurring, and is extremely annoying. Yesterday, I had 10...

Two things.... 1) My only source of information regarding my 522 unit is from this forum. Not from www.echostaruser.com, not from www.dishchannelchart.com, not from any of the other related forums on www.satelliteguys.us, but this one. Right here. The one that you're reading at the moment. I...

Correct you are - I apologize for the repeat. The only forum I read is this one (for the 522) and it hasn't been posted here yet - at least for the past several weeks. But I still find it odd that I haven't heard about the price increase ANYWHERE in Dish Network's literature, it's literally...

I just walked a friend through the DishNetwork.com "order on-line", and found something interesting. In the final screen that shows his final monthly amount, this was at the bottom of the screen: ----------------------------- Effective 2/1/05: America's top 60 and Top 60 Plus will...

A feature I'd really like to see The feature I'd most like to see is this: When I set up a timer for a recording, I'd like it to record. I think this should be placed fairly high on the programmers' priority list - is that really too much to ask for from a DVR??!??!??!??!??!??!?

Dude, you are much better off with a 510 instead of a 522..... just read the comments of Dish Network's numerous happy customers in this forum. I'm contemplating making them TAKE MY 522 and give me ANYTHING else in return! Heck, I'm even thinking of getting cable back and buying a Tivo...

Me too... I'm having the same problems (I thought it was just me). It's intermittent though - sometimes they'll find matches from week to week, sometimes not. Is it somehow related to how the timers are created? If I bring up an old timer that's not firing, and look at what it's supposed...

Here's an FYI for everyone: Your UHF remote control should NOT be eating batteries! If it does, return it to DishNetwork. 2 days after installing my 522, my UHF remote went dead - no response, no lights, nothing - and I though maybe there was a problem with the remote's address number or...