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My reason is simple. I DO NOT LIKE committing myself to leases. I'll be happy to stop purchasing hardware as soon as soon as Dish offers a month-to-month plan that includes equipment (no lease term/commitment).

I'm an (almost) OG Dish Network subscriber. I first subscribed to the service in the mid-1990's. Over the years I've gotten accustomed to not having bleeding edge equipment. As such I've typically purchased slightly older used gear for use. My most recent purchase, a few years back, was a 1st...

I'll give that a try in the morning. It's over 110 degrees outside right now....... :flame I Used to have two Hoppers. Now I guess I'm too lazy or maybe cheap to go out and buy a Single Node unless I absolutely need it. Are you thinking that the Duo Node may be part of the problem? Yes...

Got a question that I'm hoping someone can help shed some light on for me. I have a Dish 1000.2 WA antenna on the roof of my house. Here in my little corner of Arid-zona I have clear line of sight to the sky. I've got three RG6 cables coming from the LNBF to a Duo Node, and from the Duo Node...

Good news... though I've got to say that weather forecasts in Phoenix should be really easy for them to provide. I've lived in AZ for over 30 years now and can pretty well predict the summertime weather in Phoenix: Today - HOT!, Tomorrow - HOT!, next week - HOT!, next month - HOT! :p

I have a pretty good idea which step resolved the problem. Unless I'm mistaken the issue is with my soon-to-be-former VIP222. I probably ought to swap back the old LNB but may wait till the weather cools down a bit. The high temp during the day here is in the 110's... and I'm both too old and...

Thanks Matt! I do appreciate your help!

Well just to close things out on my request, I made a couple of changes today that seem to have resolved my issue: 1. I replaced the LNB on my Dish 1000.2 antenna. 2. I swapped out my VIP222 with a brand new VIP211k that I got from a friend (never used). Between the two I seem to be...

Thanks for the suggestions! I've got one spare separator so I might just try placing that. Something I just noticed that seems rather odd is that when I go into Menu-6-1-1 the settings (transponder/satellite) don't seem to stay on the same settings. Earlier the settings are at transponder 8...

I'm having one of those amazingly exasperating intermittant problems and was wondering if someone could offer me some advise. Nightly (and this only seems to happen at night), I have intermittent issues with only one of my two receivers (VIP222) experiencing a "Complete loss of signal"...

OK... here's a thought I just had. I currently have VIP222 and DVR721 receivers. I subscribe to Gold HD and Top 250 programming. Monthly Dish hits me up for a leased receiver fee and the Dish Home Protection plan. If I call them up today and get the 522/625 receiver then I shouldn't get...

Ahh... well that explains it! Guess its a good thing that the 811 was a freebee! ;) Guess I'll just have to start shopping for a new 211 or something similar.... :D

I've been away from this site for quite a while so please forgive me if this is the 1000th time this question has been posted!! A friend just gave me a free Dish 811 receiver. :cool: I swapped this receiver for my existing ancient 4900 receiver a couple of weeks ago. This is a second...

Quite true! A customer should not ever go through that sort of headache. Unfortunately it happens all the time in large corporations all over. The best examples that come to mind are Microsoft and Dell Computer. Call one of these companies for support and plan to be there for quite a while...

I had almost the exact same problem with my 721 recently. Although the solution somewhat suprised me, the problem turned out to be a faulty DishPro dual LNBF. Dish sent me a new DishPro LNBF and the problem went away immediately after I installed the LNB's. Since you're running legacy quad...

I upgraded an older 4500 with a 721 and am happy I did it. The 721, although no longer in production, is a vastly superior receiver. Between the increase in capabilities and the fact that E* doesn't charge the $5/month PVR fee, I'm totally satisfied with my investment. Now if I could only...

I suspect Iceberg was indicating that he has a legacy setup using a spare legacy twin for 61.5. I suspect he'll clarify that but my suspicion is thats how he did it. I have to assume that E* receivers would have a difficult time dealing with a combined DishPro/Legacy signal.

The 4000-series receivers have a single satellite input. As such they're looking for a single input from the dish. To provide the input of two LNB's, you'd need to combine them using the SW-21. If, on the other hand, you're truly running a DishPro setup with DishPro LNB's then you'll need a...

A bug?? Nah... it must be an undocumented feature!!! :D It sure was entertaining last week when I was on the phone with Dish Tech Support and the tech indicated that she didn't know much about the 721's. Why you ask? Because, in her words, there were soooooo few in the field...

One of the things I really wish E* would make a tad more consistent are the scales they use to indicate relative signal strength. It seems to me that on most of E*'s receivers, the scale peaks at 125 (this is the max value listed on my old 4000 receiver). On my Dish Pro-enabled 721, however...

Sounds like you're almost quoting one of my favorite books from the early days of Software Engineering. The book was the "Mythical Man Month" by Fredrick Brooks. In the book Brooks showed that throwing additional resources at a software project not only didn't speed up its creation it actually...

I tend to agree with you. Placing a surge protector on the line side of a UPS really isn't a big deal. It does provide marginally better surge protection to the UPS at a nominal cost. The thing people definitely DON'T want to do, however, is drive a UPS with a UPS.

No and Yes... I don't own a 921 receiver so the answer to that part is no. I do, however, own a 721 and its protected (in addition to all of my AV gear) by an APC 1.4kva UPS and APC Surge Protectors. I used the APC surge protectors because APC has this silly caveat saying they only guarantee...

Welcome to the 21st century dude! There are lots of people and lots of businesses in service industries staffed by kids with this exact same attitude. I think that maybe it would be more useful to limit the use of such language till you are speaking with these particulat installers. So why...

Amen! My 721 is waiting for its share of the programming goodies too...