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Hey Everyone Thanks for all your help.

The dish tech arrived today. He did end up adding 118 but I am still unfortunately disappointing the manner and method in which the new setup was explained and done. The tech kind of tricked me and I did not not realize until after the job was done and he had left. My guess is he did the setup this way because it was easier for him. He did not want to pull a new wire from the new 118 satellite on my roof to my dp44 switch in the basement. Rather he took the easy way out and combined all 4 Sats on my roof..

Here is a more detailed explanation.

I did not realize that when he meant that I would be able to have 6 TVs with the new configuration he meant 3 HD receivers only with 3 additional TVs being added through tuner 2 on the 3 receivers. This makes it so you would only have 3 TV being able to view HD and the other 3 would have to be SD. So from my understanding I would only be able to connect 3 HD receivers. Unfortunately in the future I plan on buying 3 additional HD receivers, for my office, basement and guest bedroom. I need the dp44 switch to have additional HD receivers. The dp44 switch was removed by the tech. He explained to me that I wouldn't need it. That with the new configuration I could have 6 TV connected.

The tech was able to add 118 but he combined 118 with the other 3 satellites, 72, 77 and 61.5 and removed my dp44 switch. He combined all 4 satellites on the roof, rather than ringing down all 118 satellite separately to the dp44 switch. So in my basement where the dp44 switch he just put a splitter. He did not bother bringing a completely new wire down from the roof to the open port on my dp44 switch. I guess he did not want to bring down a completely new wire from the new 118 satellite because it was about to start raining or he just was being lazy. The way he has it setup now, he got away with bringing down a new wire from the roof to the basement.

The reason being he ended up combining all the 4 satellites on my roof from my understanding I will not be able to have than 3 HD receivers. I am afraid now when I add additional HD receiver I will have to call a subcontractor or dish tech to fix this issue.

I should have been adamant from the beginning that all 4 satellites should be brought down separately to the dp44 switch. He said in the starting of the new setup that I would be able to have 6 TVs connected no problem. He did not explain that only 3 will be in HD and the other 3 will be SD.

So now I have all my Hindi (International Channels) and all 4 satellites 61.5, 72, 77, and 118 but now I am stuck having a max 3 HD receivers only.

In the future when I add the other 3 HD receivers I am going to be stuck. I will have to have the setup redone again.

Any advice on what to do? Should I hire a satellite subcontractor to fix the problem or can I call dish again? Or should I wait until I purchase the 3 additional receivers then call dish again informing them I have no way to add additional HD receivers?

Please let me know if anything is missing or not clear. I probably repeating myself through the explaination but this has been a really frustrating day.

Thanks again to everyone and for any additional advice.

P.S Is there any way the DIRT could do anything about this?

BruinsFan said:

P.S Is there any way the DIRT could do anything about this?

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If you PM your phone or account number I'll be happy to look into this further for you. Thanks!

If you are going to activate 3 more duo receivers, (1) you'll have to buy them outright and (2) you will need more than one DPP44 anyway. (Well, you could feed 6 duo receivers via 1 DPP44 and 1 DPP33 to save a few bucks. The DPP44 has feedthrough ports but the DPP33 does not). When I didn't like what my installer did, I ripped it all out and did it myself.

So... I think you might as well wait until you buy those extra receivers. I hope the installer left your DPP44 so you don't have to buy one of those too.

Was the tech lazy? Yes and no. He did what his workorder called for, which was to integrate 118.7
If you paid for the original Dpp44, he should have just bypassed it and not remove it.
Yes, you should have told him were were going to add more recs not just TVs. If you did, he would have had to run the line.

If you do add anymore recs, the tech that comes out will have to add a Dpp44 or 2 and run 1 more line from the roof anyway.

Hey everyone, wasn't able to visit the forum over the weekend. Thanks for the help.

I wasn't trying to insult the tech. He did it good job in securing the dish on to the roof. He even said he double sealed the sat dish just in case to prevent leaks. He even cleaned out the lnb which had a wasp nest. He was a nice and courteous person. I was dissapointed in the fact that I had told him prior to him starting the install that I needed to add more receivers. It was my fault in not saying additional HD receivers when he said that I would be able to watch on 6 additional TVs. I even asked him in the beginning that why isn't he pulling 118 separately to the dp44. the tech said it wasn't necessary, that I would get better signal without the switch and also that it was extra work. He said I would be fine with the way he was configuring it. I should have been adamant from the starting that I wanted him to pull the wire separately. I did pay for the dp44 originally and luckily I still have it. Thanks again.

I think taking the switch out of line is a good idea I think it works better. but he did leave you the DP44, and the LNB has 3 ports. So if you add additional recievers the part are there.