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Last reply Jun 25, 2011 · posted in DISH Network Support Forum

Thinking about getting Dish TV

We moved into our new home few months ago.. and now are thinking about getting dish network satellite service.. presently, we have 4 TVs that are mounted on walls and and one TV which is on a stand which can support the satellite receiver. All TVs are connected with the internal coax wiring and there are also ethernet ports by them. My issue is how to connect all of these with one satellite receiver.. we are only two people in the house.. so, we will not be watching more than two channels at one time..
btw, all our TVs are HDs..
has anyone had a similar issue.. help, please!
please note - I cannot have more than one dish receiver

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Tampa8

Jun 24, 2011

Take a look at Direct TV, they have a "Whole house" set-up, but even there I think you will need more than one receiver. Dish at this time does not have a whole house system.
If you can not have more than one receiver, one receiver will not provide you a signal to all of them in HD. Depending on TV locations, one receiver could give two TV's an HD signal, but the second would have to watch what the first is watching. You would use a "one into two" HDMI splitter. Or, you could send a second TV an HD signal with component cables, still mirroring what the first TV sees however.

What did you or do you have for service now?

osu1991

Jun 24, 2011

http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...=10425&cs_id=1042501&p_id=6177&seq=1&format=2

Not sure if this will paste correctly from my phone, but there have been hdmi over ethernet wallplates for a couple of years. Some will have a power plug on the outside of the plate for an external power supply if you are running a long distance. If you want to spend some money you can look at hdmi over coax.

You usually have to knock the back of the wall box out or if it is new construction use the backless low voltage boxes.

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vik

Jun 25, 2011

I have Time Warner right now (basic cable with no receiver); How do I split the HD feed out of the receiver? If I use an HDMI Splitter, how do I carry the signal to the other room? All TVs are connected with either Ethernet or coax, but there is no possibility of running additional wiring(HDMI or Composite) to the other TVs.. these are far away from each other..

vik

Jun 25, 2011

Tampa8 said:
Take a look at Direct TV, they have a "Whole house" set-up, but even there I think you will need more than one receiver. Dish at this time does not have a whole house system.
If you can not have more than one receiver, one receiver will not provide you a signal to all of them in HD. Depending on TV locations, one receiver could give two TV's an HD signal, but the second would have to watch what the first is watching. You would use a "one into two" HDMI splitter. Or, you could send a second TV an HD signal with component cables, still mirroring what the first TV sees however.

What did you or do you have for service now?

vik

Jun 25, 2011

osu1991 said:
For only $15.54 each when QTY 50+ purchased - HDMI over CAT5E / CAT6 Extender Wall Plate (Pair) - Single Port (1P) - White (Rev. 1.2) | HDMI Wall Plates

Not sure if this will paste correctly from my phone, but there have been hdmi over ethernet wallplates for a couple of years. Some will have a power plug on the outside of the plate for an external power supply if you are running a long distance. If you want to spend some money you can look at hdmi over coax.

You usually have to knock the back of the wall box out or if it is new construction use the backless low voltage boxes.

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this does look interesting.. i will have to do some research on this...does any one have first hand experience with using this product. Quite honestly, with so many folks instaling their flat plasmas on the walls, I am surprised that my issue is so unique.. I was so sure that this would be simple to resolve

osu1991

Jun 25, 2011

I haven't used these newer wallplates. I have done several other special setups though with cat 6 and component video baluns. They work well.

You might look at a zeevee box too. It is pricey but would allow you to send an HD signal from your box out to your other tvs over coax. It takes the component output from your receiver and modulates it on a qam cable channel for distribution throughout your house. www.zeevee.com I think is the web address.

Your tvs would have to have a cable tuner built in which most do.

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Tampa8

Jun 25, 2011

vik said:
I have Time Warner right now (basic cable with no receiver); How do I split the HD feed out of the receiver? If I use an HDMI Splitter, how do I carry the signal to the other room? All TVs are connected with either Ethernet or coax, but there is no possibility of running additional wiring(HDMI or Composite) to the other TVs.. these are far away from each other..

Then there is no good way to do that. You would need to run an HDMI cable, which in many instances is not reasonably done. You split the feed with a short length of HDMI cable coming out of the one HDMI output on the receiver, into the splitter. Then there will be two HDMI outputs on the splitter, one would go to the TV right there, the other would go to whatever other source you want. (Second TV, Audio receiver, etc...)

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Scott Greczkowski

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Last reply 19 minutes ago · posted in The Chit Chat Club

Song Name Game Part 3!

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 Wanna Talk About Me - Toby Keith

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98.6 - Keith

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Today at 11:25 AM

I'm Easy - Keith Carridine

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reubenray

Last reply Today at 10:36 AM · posted in Computers and Gadgets

Laptop Shutting Off When On Battery?

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

Today at 10:09 AM

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

Today at 10:36 AM

arlo said:
That's all I got.

That was quite enough....I definitely learned something from your post. Thanks

TRG

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Last reply Today at 10:27 AM · posted in Computers and Gadgets

Starlink Router question

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

Saturday at 2:12 PM

TRG said:
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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HipKat

Saturday at 11:07 PM

TRG said:
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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Foxbat

Sunday at 12:44 AM

TRG said:
…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

Sunday at 11:46 AM

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):

Starlink V5 Is Here: What RVers Need to Know

Overview of the new Starlink V5 model along with comparison to the previous V4 model along with a recommended setup for mobile internet users.

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Foxbat

Today at 10:27 AM

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.

dishstaller

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Last reply Today at 10:27 AM · posted in The Chit Chat Club

I think we could all use a laugh - Rodney Dangerfield on Carson

Good...simple humor. Enjoy

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E92AtfTLge4

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJy0WnejlF4

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Jimbo

Today at 12:37 AM

Not Rodney, but a laugh ...

View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WHEcmortfK0?feature=share

dishstaller

Today at 10:27 AM

Sorry for posting the wrong link. Just corrected it.

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Last reply Today at 10:17 AM · posted in The Chit Chat Club

At least 64 dead in Spanish passenger train collision

Terrible tragedy. You would think that they would have safe guards in place that would prevent something like this from happening. I guess if you are going to ride in a passenger train it might be best to get a car near the rear.

At Least 64 Dead After Two High-Speed Trains Collide In Spain | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

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Jimbo

Yesterday at 11:24 AM

dishstaller said:
Terrible tragedy. You would think that they would have safe guards in place that would prevent something like this from happening. I guess if you are going to ride in a passenger train it might be best to get a car near the rear.

At Least 64 Dead After Two High-Speed Trains Collide In Spain | ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

They will have to look at the switching sections to determine WHY 2 trains were on the same track ... at the same time.

dishstaller

Today at 10:17 AM

Thought this article might be of interest to some of you who might travel via train.

The safest seat to sit on in a train

Safety experts have shared top tips on train safety after a fatal railway crash in Spain killed 69 people, including where the safest place is in an emergency.

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