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Well, the dual USB to hard drive cable I purchased (like most inexpensive computer accessories), shipped directly from china and took close to month to arrive, but it showed up today and I can now report that it works fine. Just remember you need an A/C to USB adaptor as well.(pictured below)...

Unless something changed, I was told you have to purchase Wally's. Yes, a Wally would be the logical update to the 211 but I can't understand them wanted to charge for it. Bob

My Vip211 recently died and Dish sent me a refurb 211k replacement and the told me to just throw the old receiver away because it was antiquated hardware. I really don't want to move to the hopper. Although the hopper's user interface is pretty. It's also painfully slow to use and I already...

I had a vip211 receiver and the ota tuner completely died. I went from 47 channels to 0 channels. Dish wanted to schedule a service call but I don't have the protection plan so I spoke to a supervisor and they agreed to send me a replacement tuner (vip211k) and I was back to my 47 channels...

I took advantage of the free over the air antenna offer from Dish to save the $12 a month for local channels, but I'm surprised at just how much of the channel guide information is missing or messed up. I was informed pre-install that lots of the new channels that aired locally would not have...

Well, I found the USB cable I needed without having to order a hub. It was only $4 on newegg.com I just have to plug its second usb connector into one of the many AC to USB power adapters I've accumulated over the years. Thanks to all that helped. Bob

My next door neighbor has an external hard drive with separate power supply so I tried it and it is recognized by the 211k. So I do need an external power supply. Does anyone make/sell a replacement USB cord for hard drives that allow you to supply the power to the usb cord from an AC/DC...

I had a vip211 which I paid the $40 for the external hard drive option and everything has worked fine for a couple years. Unfortunately the over the air tuner died on the 211 and Dish sent me a 211K replacement unit. When I hook the external hard drive to the 211k, it takes about 30 seconds...