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DefDude
Last reply · posted in DISH Network Support Forum
Looks like the new update has fixed the folder browsing bug .....but what could be broke now?
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3HaloODST
So the question is... Will DISH ever fix the occasional slow guide bug and/or folder bug?

Other than that, my 722k's are flawless...
DefDude
So the question is... Will DISH ever fix the occasional slow guide bug and/or folder bug?

Other than that, my 722k's are flawless...
I noticed when I removed all the shows from my 722 to a EHD it was very quick. After I put enough to fill about half the HD it was still better than before. Anybody know if you can do a complete wipe of the system and and start it up like a new unit?
Dah-Henny
...Anybody know if you can do a complete wipe of the system and and start it up like a new unit?
I know the remote button sequence to clean the hard drive, but am uneasy about doing it. I wish I had tried it before I sent my defective 722 back this morning, just to see what would happen.
3HaloODST
I noticed when I removed all the shows from my 722 to a EHD it was very quick. After I put enough to fill about half the HD it was still better than before. Anybody know if you can do a complete wipe of the system and and start it up like a new unit?

TBH I believe it could quite possibly be just coincidence that your 722k got faster... At least on my two 722k's, the slowdowns are very random, and most of the time it's just as fast as ever, but it decides to randomly slow down, and either a reboot or a power cycle fixes it, or it'll just fix itself. I dunno.. Could be wrong...

Oddly enough I have yet to have a slowdown on either of them since L680, however, I have seen reports of others still having the slowdowns, so I'm sure the issue will creep (no pun intended) back again...
MikeD-C05
I recently replaced my 922 with a 722k and I have had it for about two weeks now and it is on L680 software, and I have not seen any slow down of any kind. No freezes of the guide or menus, etc. I am a power user with 4 shows recording at a time. We watch it all day and evening and it has been rock solid ,other than a stopped recording that freezes 10 minutes into it. This bug was there before when I had a 722k last year.
cditty
I recently replaced my 922 with a 722k and I have had it for about two weeks now and it is on L680 software, and I have not seen any slow down of any kind. No freezes of the guide or menus, etc. I am a power user with 4 shows recording at a time. We watch it all day and evening and it has been rock solid ,other than a stopped recording that freezes 10 minutes into it. This bug was there before when I had a 722k last year.

722K is great. I never upgraded from it. I am constantly recording 4 at a time in the fall. That receiver keeps me paying for Dish. I have 'free' Comcast right under it, but that DVR is so terribly clunky, I only use it to record Boardwalk Empire on 'free' HBO.

My Dish contract ends in May. I don't know if I will stay or not. It is not killing me financially at 39.99 a month. I'll probably just keep it. Anyway, I was just trying to say I love my 722K. Dishes best effort ever in software.
MikeD-C05
Agreed Cditty.

The 722k is the best dvr receiver that DISH has ever come out with. I should of stayed with the best instead of buying the 922 last May. But I had heard the 922 was going to be built on the 722k software, with larger hard drive, better menus , guides, for hd resolution. Well it wasn't as good as the 722k and the extra $4.00 charge for sling ,that I wasn't able to do reliably, made me trade it back in for another 722k instead. I will stay with the 722k and just add extra things to it like I have already done. Like the google revue, and the external hard drive for archiving. After having the sling feature for 8 months and now I don't , I have to say I don't miss it at all. I don't use a cell phone or have a I pad so I was not getting any use out of it. Had DISH came out with the sling extender for hd in another room I would of stuck it out with the 922 ,bugs and all. But they pulled it from their website and it doesn't look like it will make it to the market now. I only hope that DISH will announce at CES next month, that they will do some kind of networking and multi-room viewing like DIRECTV has done. Then the 722k will be complete for me.
dishstaller
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Last reply · posted in The Chit Chat Club
Can't help but wonder if a worker overlooked checking the harness. I rarely ride a roller coaster anymore but when I do I check the harness myself pretty aggressively.
Can't imagine what the son is going through.

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Jimbo
Back on the Goliath Roller Coaster ... I'm interested to find more details as well ...
Like where on the track did this happen (somewhere I read that it was on the climb up the top), which is impossible ...

They really need to take that ride and add at the very least, seatbelts ...

The Park is opening back up on Friday, the ride will Not be opening ... personally, I would keep it closed until different type of restraints can be designed and installed (over the winter).

I find it hard to believe that this ride is even allowed to be running with the restraints that exist at the moment, there are other rides that use the same type and they have been shut down across the country.

You got to believe that every ride has at least 2 types of restraint systems in place.

I wonder what and when we will hear from the Manufacturer ... and whatever governing bodies control these ...

Just think, this is a Major Amusement Park .... I would not have any problem getting on the Roller Coasters I have rode ...

Imagine what these County Fairs and others like them, I would not be caught Dead on one of them ... they get put up and tore down every other week, where is the safety for those rides ... No Thank You.
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navychop
I would not be caught Dead on one of them

Yet IF you were on one, you might be caught dead.
dishstaller
Had no idea there were that many redundancies built into those restraints.
Jimbo
Had no idea there were that many redundancies built into those restraints.
It makes sense, however, I would want more types of restraints, so if one doesn't work, the other does ... the restraints coming over the shoulder I would have expected ... with a Seat belt as last resort.

Fwiw, I inquired with what they use on Coasters at Cedar Point, various Coasters, different restraints according to what the car and track requires ...

NONE of the Coasters at CP use THAT particular system :)
I'm glad to see ...
dishstaller
with a Seat belt as last resort.
According to the article, when you see a seat belt on a ride like this, it is basically used as a way of making sure the rider isn't too large/fat to safely ride the ride.
dishstaller
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Last reply · posted in Internet Television (IPTV) Discussion Forum
Wasn't exactly sure where to post this. Just had a customer come in inquiring about internet. He has HughesNet and had heard good things about mine. He asked if we provided email addresses and it kinda caught me off guard. I said he should be able to keep whatever email he had been using....my sister in law is still using a BellSouth email addy and they haven't been around here for many years. He said he had gotten a letter from HughesNet stating that they had until Nov 16th to save, move, forward, whatever, their Hughesnet emails because they would lose them after that date.

I have never heard of a company simply mass-deleting email accounts (the customer still has his HughesNet service). From what I understand, in the past, the company who was ditching their email service simply sold the customer base to a company like Google.

Anyone else getting this letter. He said he would show it to me tomorrow when I go out there and set up his internet.
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Foxbat
Doing a Google of the HughesNet Email notice, it seems that HughesNet has been trying to eliminate hosting emails since 2019. And with HughesNet filing Chapter 11 back in August, it would be a smart move to switch to a more stable Email provider. Even AT&T farmed out their Email to Yahoo! years ago.

SpaceX's Starlink and the Cellular 5G Home Internet solutions have pretty much relegated HughesNet and its high latency, low bandwidth Internet service to History. If Earth had shorter days, maybe a Geostationary Internet Solution might have stood a fighting chance…
dishstaller
Well, I helped him set up a gmail acct....I actually wanted to see what the new process is for setting up a gmail acct since it had been years since I set mine up. Anyway, I showed him how to forward the emails he wanted to keep over.
Former member 209992
Last reply · posted in SatelliteGuys Support Center
For some reason, the satelliteguys.us site is loading a lot slower than usual on both Chrome on my Asus laptop and Safari on my iPhone.
I'm also seeing longer appearances of the blue bar at the top and the "3 blue bars" loading symbol.
Is anyone else also having the same problem? Thanks in advance.
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Scott Greczkowski
Ok the update is complete. :)
Foxbat
Scott, I was having major issues getting connected around noon ET. Looks fine now. I captured a Safari session that was showing high CPU utilization in the Rendering of the page, like 90+%. I have a JSON file I created that I could share.
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Scott Greczkowski
Been using the site at that time and saw no issues. A quick look at the logs shows nothing strange.
Foxbat
Yeah. It's probably something going on with the MacBook as my iPhone has been pretty snappy.
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Scott Greczkowski
I have been optimizing the site the past few days... and got us here now. :) We are rocking now!

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Last reply · posted in FTA Receiver / Equipment Support
I just received 6 receiver 2 port mini Multiswitch and it work great, no external power need it, and you can connect 6 receiver instead of 4 on most Mini Multiswitches... If anyone is interested in where they can get one PM me....
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Titanium
Have you tested using external power? Over the years, have found unpowered polarity switching to be unreliable. Especially problematic when used with DiSEqC motors or switch stacking.
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No I have not. I just got it the other day and it is connected to six receivers working just fine. What I do is non power mini multi-switches work best with LNBF's and with LNB's
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TheRatPatrol
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Anyone else watch this show? Any guesses as to what was in the box Gibbs gave to Abby that was on her desk? It look liked it was glowing.

I also heard that someone was leaving the show at the end of this season. Any guesses as to who thats going to be?
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TheRatPatrol
Wait, Tony is the director now? Apologies, I stopped watching a while ago.
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Jimbo
Wait, Tony is the director now? Apologies, I stopped watching a while ago.
Was Gibbs still there when you quit watching ?
If so, A Lot has happened ....

It's been pretty good all along , once you get use to Gibbs being gone.
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Jimbo

Howard ...
You don't like Tony, or Tony as the Director (he's only been there for 30 seconds now) or you don't like NCIS ?
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Howard Simmons
Howard ...
You don't like Tony, or Tony as the Director (he's only been there for 30 seconds now) or you don't like NCIS ?
Tony as the director.🙄
Jimbo
Tony as the director.🙄
Would you rather have LaRoche ???
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dishstaller
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Last reply · posted in The Chit Chat Club
I bought the fixed color version of these bulbs for my store several years ago...work great and no more replacing ballast. Finally had one go out and when I went back to Amazon I saw that now they come in selectable versions so no more guess work as to what color light would do best in a certain area. They are now double OR single ended...used to be strictly one way or the other. If any of you are looking at replacing the old style 4 or 8 ft bulbs, you might want to give these a try. The 8 footers are BRIGHT. I put 5 in my shooting/target shed and you can get a decent tan if you are in there long enough.

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Foxbat
When we re-lamped my in-Laws' house for sale last year, we were able to get all the Edison bulbs and a few fixtures with switch-selectable Color Temperature. We tried a few and settled on 3000°K as the best fit for the house. Matching the lighting in all the rooms made for an inviting experience. The Shop was the only place that we went with 4000°K for the LED 4' fixtures.

The house was sold within a month of going on the market, so we must have done something right.

The other advantage is if the new owners decide that they prefer a warmer light, they can unscrew the bulbs (I think it was close to 70 bulbs) and set them to the 2500K/2700K settings.

I'll have to check these out. Thanks!
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