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goaliebob99
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Last reply · posted in DISH Network Support Forum
As a dish network coustomer i feel @ss raped right now... as an employee im losing faith in the company i work for. Last night I ordered a 921. I finally have had it with my 811 and want to take a sledge hammer to it.. Went to various retailers in my area first... all out of stock.. one wanted me to wait till monday before he even made the trip to go pick one up. I laughed and said had a nice day.. Went to dishstore.net didnt see one there.. must be out of stock.. ok.. well called up dish. ordered it.. wanted to pick it up at work. told the csr that all i needed was the work order i didnt care about the install date because i would be installing it myself. so they set me up with an install date on the 31st. ok fine.. got to the verifacation part and then i was told that it was being shipped... WHAT?? in my dispare. why is it being shipped. the csr told me that under this promotion it had to be shipped cauz it was specifically stated for me to get it at a reduced price of "549" wait a minute.. thats MSRP!!!!!! no programming commitments. nothing.. thats what dish was bsing me with. so i said ok how long. the csr told me a week to get it WHAT? i said??? no I want it faster. the whole point for me to set it up was to go pick it up from work so I could have it faster. the CSR told me there was nothing that she could do. Well do you have next day expidited shipping.. csr puts me on hold.. comes back online.. yes we do its 24.95 do you want it.. yes i do.. she said then that it would be shipped out tonight and call back in the morning for tracking information.. So this morning i called back. played CSR roulette again.. The csr that i talked to said no shipping info avaible.. looking at my statement online at this time i noticed that i had a 549 credit on my bill plus a 2495 credit on the bill.. no charge so far for the 921. I once again ask if i can go pick it up sence i work for DNSC. Once again no. So I talk to her serperviser (sorry for the mispelling) no help there getting more pissed off. :mad: at this time i just said you have 10 min to get me a tracking number or im getting ready to cancelle. still no help. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: so i asked to be transfred to the executive office. her supervisor reluctanly did. Talked to the executive office no help there.. at first they said It wasnt being shipped expidited and i said bull sh*t and gave them the payment authorization number. then it was oh ok so u did. the researched and then they said nothing they could do. other than call back tonight and see if theres shipping info... ok... so once again played csr roulette.. its now 9 pm. placed the order over 24 hours ago. called back.. the first csr i talked to got hung up on... my cell phone droped its tower.. sh*t. called back.. the 2nd csr said once again no tracking info and gave me the number to ups to get the tracking info from ups.. called up ups knoing they wouduldnt be able to help me and i would have to get it from dishnetwork. talked to ups. they confermed what i thought.. called back dishnetwork. talked to a 3rd csr for 60 min. this guy was helpfull. I come to find out the the reciver is on backorder and no one told me. Well sence its on back order and i happen to know were some are (at work ) that has no work orders assocated with it can you change the work order so i can go get it..... NOPE>> once again they keep saying the word promotion.. at this point i was like look i can go buy this out right from any retailer and have it the same day for the same price. This is not a promotion.. so i was put on hold.. came back off of hold and then i was told I had two options Cancel my work order and request a refund witch would take up to 4 days or wait... this point im pissed but calm because i know its not the csr's fault.. So im choseing to wait.. and go to work and see if i can pick up one there. if i wanst an employee and getting my credits for programming I would be so out the door and saying hello to voom again or d* Talk about being @ss raped by the company you work for... will keep you alll updated... on poor coustomer service that im reciving right now. Also i found out that the promotion that dish is trying to say im under specifically states that the reciver has to be shipped. and they keep saying to there coustomers that its a promotion to make it look like its a value that there giving them.. eventhough its msrp... BE VEARY AWARE
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hokiecb
good things come to those who wait or something like that..
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yup

A few things

The reason that you don't have tracking information is 1) the obvious that you already know, the receiver is on back order. also 2) expedited shipping actually goes through fedex, not UPS.

Also, the $549 through dish is a promo cost in that it includes the installation and all switch gear and other equipment needed at no additional cost. Waiting sucks but there's not much they can do....except make more 921's. WOW! I SHOULD BE CHARLIE'S ASSISTANT
Plywodstatebum
What a Horror story, I'm glad I ordered it from a Co. in Michigan they said it would be sent tomorrow, 549 + 30 shipping.
R
retired sfl

undefinedI ordered mine from Vann's-no ship charge 549.00 arrived in 7 days ups
DSquared
Ordered mine from Mark at Dish Depot. No shipping charges. No tax. No hassels. Rebate on old units. :yes :yes
dishstaller
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· posted in The Chit Chat Club
It states the average amount they are under water is OVER $7,000. :eek

Personally, I tend to be the type that drives a vehicle for a lot of years....do my own oil changes and other fluid changes. Just replaced the spark plugs and a couple coils. Youtube is great for things like this.

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Scott Greczkowski
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Last reply · posted in The Chit Chat Club
Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!

So let the game continue!

The last song was added by Bobby who posted...

One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters

CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!

Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game

Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.

Example:

Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow

Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio

Another example:

Ride the Lightning -- Metallica

Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne


Get it?


An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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I'm Easy - Keith Carridine
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It's Easy - Boston
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Take It Easy On Me - Little River Band
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Take It Easy - The Eagles
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Last reply · posted in DIRECTV Programming Forum
DIRECTV Stream/Internet added Ch 4105 SportsGrid
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Now live:
4101 Yahoo! Sports Network
4121 DP World Tour
4195 F1 Channel
4196 MotoGP Channel
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Now live:
4275 Law & Crime
4364 Military Makeover Channel
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Game Show Central is now live on channel 4342
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Now live:
4101 Yahoo! Sports Network
4121 DP World Tour
4195 F1 Channel
4196 MotoGP Channel
It only took them 41 days to announce it
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Now testing:
AyM Sports 3 USA
Best Bets TV powered by VSiN
CBS Sports Golazo Network
CBS Sports HQ
Judge Judy
TWiT Tech Podcast Network
· posted in TWiT Tech Podcast Network
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dfergie
Staff member HERE TO HELP YOU!
Last reply · posted in What's Cooking?
We have a Breakfast and Dinner thread so... :)
Continuing from the Breakfast thread, found Cornbread mix so ...
Yellow Cornbread Mix
2 Hatch Green Chiles -diced
1 Egg
2/3 cup of milk
add to greased pan
Bake for 400f 20-25 minutes(From instructions)
now to put together and try... this to go with pinto beans...
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Club sandwich and corn chowder. Iced tea.
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Chili dog bowl, water… (homemade chili)
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Leftover wanton soup and pork fried rice. Water.
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Sweet tea…
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Tuna salad sandwich on toasted honey whole wheat bread with a handful of kettle chips. Water.
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Last reply · posted in Computers and Gadgets
Lately my eight year old Dell laptop has been shutting off even when I have a full battery. I have had to keep it plugged up all the time to keep this from happening. Any idea what is causing this? I replaced the battery about three years ago.
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arlo
A recalibration might be needed. Even if it shows full, the individual cells may have become unbalaced. And the BMS chip in the battery reports false information to the pc.
Try this. Start it up in the bios/uefi and leave it there until the battery dies and it shuts off.
It might just keep running longer than in Windows. Or run for a short while and shut off.
If it's the first case. Probably just needs a balancing. If the latter, the pack might just be dead.
Not throwing stones but perhaps just a cheaply constructed battery with substandard cells. Could be.

Patience. Keep restarting it in bios/uefi until it won't fire up anymore.
Then plug the charger in and let it complete a full charge. And see what happens. If it's better.
Do the same thing one more time. Run it until it dies dead-dead. Then just let it charge, pc shut off.
When charged, it might be better. It might not be.

There are bench jigs that read the actual BMS and override it to let a tech manually monitor and charge the separate packs. They can also reset any "time bombs" in it that cause an otherwise good pack to show bad.
Maybe Santa will be good to me some year.

You might just need a new battery. Maybe the PC power management chip is going. A Dell common thing.
Leaving a laptop plugged in with a full battery is known to reduce the life. Asus for one recommends that you don't leave the charger plugged in all of the time even when shut down. And setting Windows to charge the battery to 85% instead of 100% increases life.
That's all I got.
dishstaller
That's all I got.
That was quite enough....I definitely learned something from your post. Thanks
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TRG
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Last reply · posted in Computers and Gadgets
I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.
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b4pjoe
I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.
If you can't get into the router to reserve an IP address just don't use DHCP on the device that needs connected and assign it to a specific IP address in the network settings.
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I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.
They are not. Your best bet is to set up a third-party router, attached to the Starlink for your server, that you can get into, like a Linksys, etc
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…it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.
The Starlink V5 Install Kit I just got comes with the Mini Router. It is pretty limited in what it can do. For example, it can provide only one IP subnet at a time, no Guest Network, but it does support the pass-thru to a third-party Router. You can also split the Wi-Fi into separate 5 GHz & 2.4 GHz SSIDs to help some IoT devices that don't support 5 GHz bands to work.

The larger Starlink Router that still comes with the V4 Kit does support a Guest Network with separate IPv4 Subnet, but it's $120 from Starlink. And it still won't do DHCP Reservations.
harshness
If you can restrict the DHCP address space to assign addresses to one end of the subnet (i.e. x.x.x.50+), you can manually assign the IP address on pretty much any operating system. This is a default behavior on several popular routers. As the Router Mini only supports 235 devices, I expect that's already done.

Another option is to use a router that supports PoE to power the antenna. This article discusses that option (under PoE Power heading):

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Now that I've had the v5 kit with the Mini Router, it's not as bad as I first thought. Yes, no DHCP reservations, but you can set up multiple SSIDs that have separate IPv4 subnets, and like the big brother, you can select from 192.168.x.0/24 or 10.x.0.0/16 (where "x" is 1-4).

You can also split a subnet and have different SSIDs for the 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz channels to handle some IoT devices. I haven't discovered what subnet the 2nd NIC on the router assigns, I'm guessing it's the first subnet.
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Last reply · posted in The Chit Chat Club
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dishstaller
Sorry for posting the wrong link. Just corrected it.