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Being the manager of my business and selling Dish I had the luxury of leaving work early to try and upgrade to the new Hopper system. I have had a 922 and 211k for over a year and have been very happy with it. I have been waiting for the Hopper for a couple years though. I was too excited to wait so I thought I'd do it today. It's been an adventure.
I decided to upgrade to 2 Hoppers and 2 Joeys for the 5 HDTVS I have in the house. I had two coax cables running into my house from the Dish. The Dish is on the opposite side of the house that the cables come in at. Since the duo node needs 3 cables coming from the dish and only two going out I put the node out by the dish. I just had to add a short cable from the dish to the node and then I could use my existing cables that go into the house. It was a little time consuming but was pretty nice on a sunny 79 degree day in Iowa.
Once that was done I just had to find which cables went where in my basement and connect the 2 taps. One tap has a cable from the dish going into it and then has on cable out to the Hopper and one cable to the Joey. The other tap has the second cable from the dish going into it and then one cable to the second Hopper and the other cable out to the second Joey. Very easy to set up since all the cable were already run.
I then hooked up the first Hopper and had it go through the download process. This can take up to 20 minutes. While that was happening I went upsatairs to the second Hopper and did the same. This is where this got tricky for me. The TV in the living room is where I have the 922 and has an EHD on it. My 922 had 390 recording on it and I was trying to transfer them over to the EHD. I started this process yesterday and it still had about 4 hours left. CRAP! Now what was I going to do. I decided I would try unhooking everything from the 922 except the power cord EHD and video cables. I hooked the satellite cable and another video cable up the Hopper and got that downloading while I still had the 922 sitting there transferring. NOTE: Recordings can be transferred to an EHD even though the receiver is not connected to satellite. This may come in handy for some.
So I got everything downloaded except for the Joeys. They are sitting in place waiting their turn. The Hoppers must first be downloaded and activated first before the Joeys can even be plugged in. At this point I'm ready to activate. I call DASH to activate it under a retailer Dish'N It Up and they say I do not have a work order. Hmmm.... I have the work order in my hand. They tell me it was canceled. The call then goes to a higher department and they tell me I need to print another work order. No problem. An hour later I get back home and call again. The same problem happens. They say there is no work order. I tell the helpful fellow, I have two work orders sitting in front of me. So while on the phone with him I get on my laptop and generate a third work order but he is unable to see it at Dish. This is very odd because I do this every week and rarely have issues.
The gentleman at Dish stayed on the phone with me for 47 minutes trying to get me activated. I was actaully sill on the phone with hime when I started writing this. He was able to get me activated as I just checked my Hoppers and they have programming. My next step is to get the Joeys going now. Tomorrow I need to talk to my distributor and make sure I'm going to get paid for this. I haven't seen an upgrade go this crazy in a while.
I'll update soon when I get the Joeys going.
I decided to upgrade to 2 Hoppers and 2 Joeys for the 5 HDTVS I have in the house. I had two coax cables running into my house from the Dish. The Dish is on the opposite side of the house that the cables come in at. Since the duo node needs 3 cables coming from the dish and only two going out I put the node out by the dish. I just had to add a short cable from the dish to the node and then I could use my existing cables that go into the house. It was a little time consuming but was pretty nice on a sunny 79 degree day in Iowa.
Once that was done I just had to find which cables went where in my basement and connect the 2 taps. One tap has a cable from the dish going into it and then has on cable out to the Hopper and one cable to the Joey. The other tap has the second cable from the dish going into it and then one cable to the second Hopper and the other cable out to the second Joey. Very easy to set up since all the cable were already run.
I then hooked up the first Hopper and had it go through the download process. This can take up to 20 minutes. While that was happening I went upsatairs to the second Hopper and did the same. This is where this got tricky for me. The TV in the living room is where I have the 922 and has an EHD on it. My 922 had 390 recording on it and I was trying to transfer them over to the EHD. I started this process yesterday and it still had about 4 hours left. CRAP! Now what was I going to do. I decided I would try unhooking everything from the 922 except the power cord EHD and video cables. I hooked the satellite cable and another video cable up the Hopper and got that downloading while I still had the 922 sitting there transferring. NOTE: Recordings can be transferred to an EHD even though the receiver is not connected to satellite. This may come in handy for some.
So I got everything downloaded except for the Joeys. They are sitting in place waiting their turn. The Hoppers must first be downloaded and activated first before the Joeys can even be plugged in. At this point I'm ready to activate. I call DASH to activate it under a retailer Dish'N It Up and they say I do not have a work order. Hmmm.... I have the work order in my hand. They tell me it was canceled. The call then goes to a higher department and they tell me I need to print another work order. No problem. An hour later I get back home and call again. The same problem happens. They say there is no work order. I tell the helpful fellow, I have two work orders sitting in front of me. So while on the phone with him I get on my laptop and generate a third work order but he is unable to see it at Dish. This is very odd because I do this every week and rarely have issues.
The gentleman at Dish stayed on the phone with me for 47 minutes trying to get me activated. I was actaully sill on the phone with hime when I started writing this. He was able to get me activated as I just checked my Hoppers and they have programming. My next step is to get the Joeys going now. Tomorrow I need to talk to my distributor and make sure I'm going to get paid for this. I haven't seen an upgrade go this crazy in a while.
I'll update soon when I get the Joeys going.
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IMHO Shart's post works fine in this thread. It's very close to being on topic, and he's already bucked up his confidence (with our help) and done with this thread. Except perhaps to come back and declare success. If he does, it's always good to hear of a happy self-install Dish customer. 
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Just going to update... I saw this thread about self install which attracted me to this site so I figured I'd just chime in on this thread instead of making a new one...
Anyway, for anyone that reads or is told by Dish "you can't install a hopper yourself", that is completely false. It IS that easy, especially if you are upgrading from a fairly new Dish DVR like the VIP722K. My dish was fairly new (3 years) with the 4 ports, and my cable that is running from the dish to my VIP722K is RG6 (not sure if it was swept to 3GHz, but it works). My 722 was using a cable off of port 1 on the dish. I connected that to port 1 on the solo node. I unscrewed 2 screws and pulled out the LNB's and attached a 2nd cable that runs to port 2 on the solo node. The cable running into the house connects to the Host port on the solo node. Connect the RG6 cable from the Host port on the Solo node to the Hopper w/ Sling, fire it up, and wait for it to do the setup. The hardware part took me less than 20 minutes (roof on single story house). The Hopper w/ Sling update/setup takes longer of course but whole thing was around 1 hour.
Joey is coming this afternoon and I anticipate that being ever bit as simple.
YMMV. I was fortunate that all of the equipment was functioning properly. If the solo node, for example, had been defective I would have had no way of knowing that and probably would have called in a tech. Anyways, thanks for the help on here!!!
Final note: I contacted Dish through their online chat and was quoted along the lines of $450 for a hopper and two Joeys. So I began traveling down the road of buying my own equipment and ended up with Hopper w/ Sling and a Joey for about $200 plus about $15 for a solo node. Had I known about contacting a DIRT member on here, then I would have known I had the option of upgrading to Hopper w/ Sling and a Joey for $100 and two year commitment, which would have included free installation. Had I known that, then that would have been the route I'd have taken...
Anyway, for anyone that reads or is told by Dish "you can't install a hopper yourself", that is completely false. It IS that easy, especially if you are upgrading from a fairly new Dish DVR like the VIP722K. My dish was fairly new (3 years) with the 4 ports, and my cable that is running from the dish to my VIP722K is RG6 (not sure if it was swept to 3GHz, but it works). My 722 was using a cable off of port 1 on the dish. I connected that to port 1 on the solo node. I unscrewed 2 screws and pulled out the LNB's and attached a 2nd cable that runs to port 2 on the solo node. The cable running into the house connects to the Host port on the solo node. Connect the RG6 cable from the Host port on the Solo node to the Hopper w/ Sling, fire it up, and wait for it to do the setup. The hardware part took me less than 20 minutes (roof on single story house). The Hopper w/ Sling update/setup takes longer of course but whole thing was around 1 hour.
Joey is coming this afternoon and I anticipate that being ever bit as simple.
YMMV. I was fortunate that all of the equipment was functioning properly. If the solo node, for example, had been defective I would have had no way of knowing that and probably would have called in a tech. Anyways, thanks for the help on here!!!
Final note: I contacted Dish through their online chat and was quoted along the lines of $450 for a hopper and two Joeys. So I began traveling down the road of buying my own equipment and ended up with Hopper w/ Sling and a Joey for about $200 plus about $15 for a solo node. Had I known about contacting a DIRT member on here, then I would have known I had the option of upgrading to Hopper w/ Sling and a Joey for $100 and two year commitment, which would have included free installation. Had I known that, then that would have been the route I'd have taken...
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Keep in mind that Dish has since made the Hopper installs faster and a bit less exacting from what it was on launch. Further, not everyone is as smart as you, and those people begin with the attitude that installing Hoppers is just like installing past systems. Further, one should have knowledge (and I'm sure you do, but not a lot of other people) of what to do should the Hopper install not go as planned or hangs, etc., and Dish does publish such checklists, but many DYI folks don't do the research. So, for the majority, a Hopper install can be a long and frustrating experience and they feel so emotionally upset that they either don't want the system or no longer want Dish. So, to prevent such ill-will, Dish prefers that CSR's etc. just say that "you can't do a Hopper install. Please let us do it." While a smart individual who does some research can DYI a Hopper with Joeys install, they are NOT the majority of the population. The refrain from Dish that one should not DYI a Hopper install, I believe, has prevented more problems than if Dish just let everyone consider the DYI (as Dish used to the 1990's) option. Remember it costs Dish to provide the professional installation, and the reason Dish spends a huge boatload of money that it otherwise could save is because there would be far too many people who would not install it correctly and blame it on Dish being a terrible service, and Dish would LOSE customers rather than having modest gains and keeping existing customers happy. Dish employees are merely doing as they are told because it is easier than taking 10 minutes of back and forth for someone to finally comprehend that they would prefer Dish to go ahead and install for them, after all.
Just going to update... I saw this thread about self install which attracted me to this site so I figured I'd just chime in on this thread instead of making a new one...
Anyway, for anyone that reads or is told by Dish "you can't install a hopper yourself", that is completely false. It IS that easy, especially if you are upgrading from a fairly new Dish DVR like the VIP722K. My dish was fairly new (3 years) with the 4 ports, and my cable that is running from the dish to my VIP722K is RG6 (not sure if it was swept to 3GHz, but it works). My 722 was using a cable off of port 1 on the dish. I connected that to port 1 on the solo node. I unscrewed 2 screws and pulled out the LNB's and attached a 2nd cable that runs to port 2 on the solo node. The cable running into the house connects to the Host port on the solo node. Connect the RG6 cable from the Host port on the Solo node to the Hopper w/ Sling, fire it up, and wait for it to do the setup. The hardware part took me less than 20 minutes (roof on single story house). The Hopper w/ Sling update/setup takes longer of course but whole thing was around 1 hour.
Joey is coming this afternoon and I anticipate that being ever bit as simple.
YMMV. I was fortunate that all of the equipment was functioning properly. If the solo node, for example, had been defective I would have had no way of knowing that and probably would have called in a tech. Anyways, thanks for the help on here!!!
Final note: I contacted Dish through their online chat and was quoted along the lines of $450 for a hopper and two Joeys. So I began traveling down the road of buying my own equipment and ended up with Hopper w/ Sling and a Joey for about $200 plus about $15 for a solo node. Had I known about contacting a DIRT member on here, then I would have known I had the option of upgrading to Hopper w/ Sling and a Joey for $100 and two year commitment, which would have included free installation. Had I known that, then that would have been the route I'd have taken...
Keep in mind that Dish has since made the Hopper installs faster and a bit less exacting from what it was on launch. Further, not everyone is as smart as you, and those people begin with the attitude that installing Hoppers is just like installing past systems. Further, one should have knowledge (and I'm sure you do, but not a lot of other people) of what to do should the Hopper install not go as planned or hangs, etc., and Dish does publish such checklists, but many DYI folks don't do the research. So, for the majority, a Hopper install can be a long and frustrating experience and they feel so emotionally upset that they either don't want the system or no longer want Dish. So, to prevent such ill-will, Dish prefers that CSR's etc. just say that "you can't do a Hopper install. Please let us do it." While a smart individual who does some research can DYI a Hopper with Joeys install, they are NOT the majority of the population. The refrain from Dish that one should not DYI a Hopper install, I believe, has prevented more problems than if Dish just let everyone consider the DYI (as Dish used to the 1990's) option. Remember it costs Dish to provide the professional installation, and the reason Dish spends a huge boatload of money that it otherwise could save is because there would be far too many people who would not install it correctly and blame it on Dish being a terrible service, and Dish would LOSE customers rather than having modest gains and keeping existing customers happy. Dish employees are merely doing as they are told because it is easier than taking 10 minutes of back and forth for someone to finally comprehend that they would prefer Dish to go ahead and install for them, after all.
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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....
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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Why are ViP922s So rare? like its crazy how ebay has none, i checked everywhere, also, i got a ViP222k now, which is actually activated!
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My year was almost up and we got the new bill for a year of service for $ 360.00 insane sat radio is becoming like cable!!! i logged into my acct and hopped onto chat and told the rep that i wanted to cancel. she understood my concern and went quiet for a few minutes. i figured that she was canceling my service. she comes back and said that she seen that i have been a sub since 07 and then offers me the same package for a year for 120.00 with taxes and fee's!!! i grabbed it. after almost having a stroke 
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Mrs. Foxbat reminded me it's that time of the year to do the Cancel Tango
The A.I. agent appears to be better than in the past. It got to the acceptable price quicker than previous years, no human operator involved. $5/mo and I still have over $50 in SiriusXM credit from my FordPartner benefits.
The A.I. agent appears to be better than in the past. It got to the acceptable price quicker than previous years, no human operator involved. $5/mo and I still have over $50 in SiriusXM credit from my FordPartner benefits.
I forgot you can pay that with Ford Pass points, I won't be due again till Feb, but I'll have to remember to try it ... Not sure what needs to be done, but I do have a substantial amount of points currently.Mrs. Foxbat reminded me it's that time of the year to do the Cancel Tango
The A.I. agent appears to be better than in the past. It got to the acceptable price quicker than previous years, no human operator involved. $5/mo and I still have over $50 in SiriusXM credit from my FordPartner benefits.
The new curated multiview is now live.
While on many of the sports channels and non sports channels there is a multi view option button. It will pull up a side bar with many different multi view options.
While on many of the sports channels and non sports channels there is a multi view option button. It will pull up a side bar with many different multi view options.
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Stumbled across this ... http://www.gaspricewatch.com/USGas_ZipSearch.asp
I found no local prices, although it did show stations at my location...
Added these to this post...
USA National Gas Temperature Map
State By State Gasoline Taxes
Gas Buddy
Ethanol Free Stations
I found no local prices, although it did show stations at my location...
Added these to this post...
USA National Gas Temperature Map
State By State Gasoline Taxes
Gas Buddy
Ethanol Free Stations
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Here in Indiana, the difference between Regular and Premium is usually a dollar, but some charge even more:
Ok, I'm bored .... actually - to be more precise - I'm bored of eating the same rotation of 9 or 10 meals that are currently my "go-to" meals. My wife works the long hours - I work from home as and when i feel like it ... which means i generally do most of the cooking ... and so by default - i also make out the shopping list ...
We cook at home 5 or even 6 nights a week - but we always seem to fall back on the same old tried and tested "quick and easy but tastes ok" meals. Week in week out.
Pot Roast - mash and Peas.
Spaghetti
Chicken Pasta in cheese sauce.
Curry & rice
(these are some of mine)
Now it's not that I'm not adventurous in the kitchen ... I'll try anything once or twice ... but we all do it. Unless your name is Martha Stewart or Rachel Ray .. we all eventually fall back on our 8-10 favorite "meals"
So i thought - if we shared some of our own go-to meals with each other ... we might be able to add a few "new" ones to our own arsenal of meals.
So again - I ask you ...
What's for dinner tonight ?
Please give me something new to add to my rotation ... its our weekly shop tomorrow - so i want to pull together a few idea's and try and eat a meal each day next week that I've never had before .. or at least something that is not on my current "go-to" meal plan.
What meal do you always seem to fall back on in your house ? Maybe its something that I've never tried or not had in a while. I need inspiration !! I've got a blank shopping list in front of me - and nothing sounds good .. HELP !
We cook at home 5 or even 6 nights a week - but we always seem to fall back on the same old tried and tested "quick and easy but tastes ok" meals. Week in week out.
Pot Roast - mash and Peas.
Spaghetti
Chicken Pasta in cheese sauce.
Curry & rice
(these are some of mine)
Now it's not that I'm not adventurous in the kitchen ... I'll try anything once or twice ... but we all do it. Unless your name is Martha Stewart or Rachel Ray .. we all eventually fall back on our 8-10 favorite "meals"
So i thought - if we shared some of our own go-to meals with each other ... we might be able to add a few "new" ones to our own arsenal of meals.
So again - I ask you ...
What's for dinner tonight ?
Please give me something new to add to my rotation ... its our weekly shop tomorrow - so i want to pull together a few idea's and try and eat a meal each day next week that I've never had before .. or at least something that is not on my current "go-to" meal plan.
What meal do you always seem to fall back on in your house ? Maybe its something that I've never tried or not had in a while. I need inspiration !! I've got a blank shopping list in front of me - and nothing sounds good .. HELP !
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Smoked some salmon on the grill while enjoying some Blue Moon beer. Kinda cool tonight so I fired up the heaters. Here in FL, we fire up heaters once the temps get below 60 
As for the salmon, I seared them first, then flipped them off to the side not over the coals and brushed on some lemon pepper marinade followed by some salmon seasoning. Threw some hickory chips on the coals and then closed the vents to about 10% airflow. Yum.
As for the salmon, I seared them first, then flipped them off to the side not over the coals and brushed on some lemon pepper marinade followed by some salmon seasoning. Threw some hickory chips on the coals and then closed the vents to about 10% airflow. Yum.