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  1. Straybeat

    Another new cord cutter!

    FWIW, we get about 50 OTA channels here. Lots to record.
  2. Straybeat

    Another new cord cutter!

    I did deal with it right away. I had to call them every single month for the last 2 years. The CSR would always say, "Oh, I see right here that you made the payment." The next month same thing would happen. After they thought "they had me" that's when i asked, what month would you like me to...
  3. Straybeat

    Another new cord cutter!

    No, it's a Tivo Bolt and we got a Mini for the bedroom.
  4. Straybeat

    Another new cord cutter!

    I know I won't hurt Dish, not when Charlie can spend a couple of billion dollars buying all the wi-fi bandwidth, Hughes Satellite, Blockbuster, etc. My problem is when he blows all that cash and cries that he has to raise the rates again. If he can buy all of those things then we're paying him...
  5. Straybeat

    Another new cord cutter!

    The money goes in his wallet, right? I'm not speaking to Kiana the CSR. She's Charlie's problem.
  6. Straybeat

    Another new cord cutter!

    That was exactly my thoughts too. They offered me the sun, moon and stars not to leave. I looked at the wife and said loud enough for them to hear, "Do you want to keep giving Dish money?" And she answered Hell no! That was it. I was tired of paying for 230 channels I didn't watch, tired of...
  7. Straybeat

    Another new cord cutter!

    Do you work for Dish? LOL
  8. Straybeat

    Another new cord cutter!

    FWIW, I started my career 37 years ago on the space shuttles and just about everything else aerospace that you ever heard the name of. Credit card bills aren't beyond my scope. ;)
  9. Straybeat

    Another new cord cutter!

    Well everyone, I did it finally. I wasn't even thinking about it until a girl at Dish named Kiana decided to screw me on my bill. For the last whole year Dish kept telling me I was a month behind on my bill and hence charging me late fees every single month, making the already over-priced bill...
  10. Straybeat

    did Dish change recording "new and reruns" behavior lately?

    I get the same things on a couple of different shows. I have "At Midnight" with Chris Hardwick on Comedy Central set for NEW and it records both shows every night (9 and 11). If I try to delete one version, it deletes both. I forget the other shows offhand, but a couple of shows with 2 nightly...
  11. Straybeat

    Wireless Joey without Dish WAP

    I recently bought a wireless Joey off Ebay and hooked it up without a WAP. I just had to call Dish to activate it. I also have a regular Joey that I put a dongle on. It was very s-l-o-w. So bad that I regrettably went back to the wire.
  12. Straybeat

    Wireless Joey

    I recently got a wireless Joey for our daughter. Dish wanted to renew our contract so I bought one off Ebay for $50 and set it up myself. It's $7 a month extra. One interesting thing, the wireless Joey works much faster and normally than a regular Joey with a wireless dongle. I took the dongle...
  13. Straybeat

    Hopper - will 3 tuners be enough?

    I had 8 tuners 20 years ago and could have used more at times. Actually, my setup was a 10 foot dish with 4DTV and a stack of VCR's with 8-hour tapes in each. I would set it to a particular satellite for the time of day, then record all of the transponders I wanted on that sat. Switch to a...
  14. Straybeat

    Netflix app can't connect from Hopper with Sling.

    FWIW, I got mine in about 10 minutes, but I have a 65 meg cable connection, sooo... ;)
  15. Straybeat

    Western Arc problems this afternoon?

    Has the tech been out? What was the verdict?
  16. Straybeat

    PT recordings gone.

    I'd like to know who the bonehead is that made the PTAT limit of 8 days?
  17. Straybeat

    Wireless Joey

    They are fine, but can be slow as molasses sometimes.
  18. Straybeat

    2000 hours of shows commercial.

    Oh I beat the daylights out of her, she'll be in therapy until she's 60! Just kidding of course, her mom and I still freak out that we managed to raise a good kid somehow? Now we're just heading into boy-trouble territory, sooo...
  19. Straybeat

    2000 hours of shows commercial.

    I let my daughter watch whatever she wanted... with the stipulation that there would be penalties if she screwed up in some way? She's almost 16 and as a doting parent I could go on for hours about how cool she is, but I can say to her, "You should take out the trash" (or whatever the chore is)...
  20. Straybeat

    2000 hours of shows commercial.

    While I get the point of your message, some of us are disabled and housebound. Dish and Xbox are all we have. ;)
  21. Straybeat

    CNN and HLN gone/ Dish-Turner Dispute - Now Back 11/21

    Ya know what bud? I totally agree! Corporations suck and I'm the one who has bitched the longest and loudest about it. I'm paying $110 a month for about 12 channels. I started keeping track in 1984 when cable companies first started the tier bullsh1t with MTV and Discovery and they knew that's...
  22. Straybeat

    CNN and HLN gone/ Dish-Turner Dispute - Now Back 11/21

    Too funny, here it is the 30th and I never noticed any of these channels were gone until I saw this thread and looked at the guide. LOL
  23. Straybeat

    Wireless Joey install requires Tech visit

    To make your Joey wireless get a Netgear WNDA3100 V2 (V1 doesn't work) wireless USB dongle. Dish uses these branded with the Dish logo on them. Disconnect the Joey wire and plug the dongle in the back, go to the Joey menu and set it up (assuming you know how to set up a wireless connection to...
  24. Straybeat

    Hope this guy wins against Dish

    It sucks to think this a$$hole screwed everything up for an entire country! And I used to rebuild Conrail train engines in the 70's. ;)
  25. Straybeat

    Consumers Dislike Cable Companies More Than Any Other Industry: Report

    I still want to know why cable AND internet is $30 a month in England and Europe and the internet is MUCH faster than ours. And all we ever get is the same song and dance about equipment costs and their other lies?