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Was just sent this so I am passing it along. 
This should help out a number of folks... and hopefully the installers learn to no hook up the Joey's until after the Hopper has downloaded both sets of software.
This should help out a number of folks... and hopefully the installers learn to no hook up the Joey's until after the Hopper has downloaded both sets of software.
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Well I joined the Hopper/joey crew today.
I installed my own Hopper and Joey unit . I am waiting for the second joey to arrive via ups some time next week. It got sent later for some reason by the loader. I have to say it was very easy to install and I'm on eastern arc. Here is what I had to do to get to the authorize screen on the hopper.
First of all I had a terk 44 clipped on to my 1000.4 eastern arc dish and it was run to three rooms in the house. I tried to use diplexors before the node to give me both sat and ota. It didn't work at all. I ended up taking two of my sat runs out of the antenna switch itself and run them straight to the node. Which meant using barrel connectors and re-cutting my coaxes to fit the lnb. I also had to switch my side sat dish to 119 sat instead of 110. I knew that if I didn't do this, I would never get a download of software . I learned that this was the way the 722k worked and the 922 did also. Without 119 it simply will NOT download the software using eastern arc sats.
I then had to take the third sat run and leave it in the antenna switch and use it to diplex for sat and ota to my living room, on the third coax run to my living room. I used and old 501 I had in the closet to power the ota antenna. It isn't authorized any longer , but it does power the antenna. From the outside , I diplexed it to run sat to the living room and used a coax run to my living room for ota and one to my master bedroom for ota. Thank God it all worked just like I set it up to do. I have ota in my living room for all my ota devices and am/fm radio on my a/v receiver. I also ran a coax to my computer room ,behind the living room tv, to give me ota in that room as well. I already split my living room tv , by hdmi splitter , to see the hopper in the computer room as well.
The hopper downloaded all the software in about 20 minutes and it was ready to be authorized by DISH. Very quick compared to what I read others have gone through. Called in the joey too ,while on the phone getting my hopper authorized. The joey took less than 5 minutes to download the software and was up and running in my master bedroom. I moved it to my boy's room after it was up and running and it worked there just fine too. I imagine the new joey coming next week will be just as easy to install. Looking forward to being able to watch on the joey in the master bedroom too. I even set it up to be controlled by my revue google box. I set it up as DISH Joey and it worked.
So I have ota in three rooms in my house : living room, computer room and master bedroom. My son couldn't care less about ota and even asked me what it was today.
Can't wait to get the usb ota tuner so I can do this through the hopper itself. I will have satellite in 4 rooms ,once the other joey gets here , and will only pay $14.00 a month for two joeys + the extra $4.00 whole house dvr fee. A slight $4.00 increase over what I had before with a 722k and two 211ks with dvr sofware. The hopper is a whole lot like the 922 I had two years ago in feel and menus , channel logos ,etc. , but it is a whole lot faster to use and so far, knock on wood , it seems pretty solid.
Now the only drawback in this whole thing is that when I called to authorize the receivers , I told the csr that I was replacing my purchased and owned 722k and two 211k receivers with a new owned and purchased hopper and joey. I repeated this and even told her that I always own my receivers etc. Guess what showed under equipment page on my DISH account? One owned joey and one Leased hopper. Of course ! Once again the csrs DO NOT LISTEN to their customers.
I ended up calling DISH and talking to the executive resolution department to get them to change it back to Owned. This was after going through a couple of csrs who could not believe I would pay over $700.00 to own a hopper. I informed them I paid only $318.00 to OWN a hopper and two joeys and a single node, After trade in value of $250.00 for my old receivers to dishdepot.com. I even quoted my receipt and when it was actually completed down to time ,date and order number. The executive resolution department came back after a wait and confirmed that I did indeed own the receivers. So I was promised within 24 hours it would reflect the owned status on my account. I took all the names down and id numbers and I still have my receipt from Dishdepot.com to show I bought them. I'm betting that by tomorrow evening I will be recalling DISH again to resolve this. This time I will go straight through cancellation to get it resolved and quit fooling with the front line csrs and techs.
I installed my own Hopper and Joey unit . I am waiting for the second joey to arrive via ups some time next week. It got sent later for some reason by the loader. I have to say it was very easy to install and I'm on eastern arc. Here is what I had to do to get to the authorize screen on the hopper.
First of all I had a terk 44 clipped on to my 1000.4 eastern arc dish and it was run to three rooms in the house. I tried to use diplexors before the node to give me both sat and ota. It didn't work at all. I ended up taking two of my sat runs out of the antenna switch itself and run them straight to the node. Which meant using barrel connectors and re-cutting my coaxes to fit the lnb. I also had to switch my side sat dish to 119 sat instead of 110. I knew that if I didn't do this, I would never get a download of software . I learned that this was the way the 722k worked and the 922 did also. Without 119 it simply will NOT download the software using eastern arc sats.
I then had to take the third sat run and leave it in the antenna switch and use it to diplex for sat and ota to my living room, on the third coax run to my living room. I used and old 501 I had in the closet to power the ota antenna. It isn't authorized any longer , but it does power the antenna. From the outside , I diplexed it to run sat to the living room and used a coax run to my living room for ota and one to my master bedroom for ota. Thank God it all worked just like I set it up to do. I have ota in my living room for all my ota devices and am/fm radio on my a/v receiver. I also ran a coax to my computer room ,behind the living room tv, to give me ota in that room as well. I already split my living room tv , by hdmi splitter , to see the hopper in the computer room as well.
The hopper downloaded all the software in about 20 minutes and it was ready to be authorized by DISH. Very quick compared to what I read others have gone through. Called in the joey too ,while on the phone getting my hopper authorized. The joey took less than 5 minutes to download the software and was up and running in my master bedroom. I moved it to my boy's room after it was up and running and it worked there just fine too. I imagine the new joey coming next week will be just as easy to install. Looking forward to being able to watch on the joey in the master bedroom too. I even set it up to be controlled by my revue google box. I set it up as DISH Joey and it worked.
So I have ota in three rooms in my house : living room, computer room and master bedroom. My son couldn't care less about ota and even asked me what it was today.
Can't wait to get the usb ota tuner so I can do this through the hopper itself. I will have satellite in 4 rooms ,once the other joey gets here , and will only pay $14.00 a month for two joeys + the extra $4.00 whole house dvr fee. A slight $4.00 increase over what I had before with a 722k and two 211ks with dvr sofware. The hopper is a whole lot like the 922 I had two years ago in feel and menus , channel logos ,etc. , but it is a whole lot faster to use and so far, knock on wood , it seems pretty solid. Now the only drawback in this whole thing is that when I called to authorize the receivers , I told the csr that I was replacing my purchased and owned 722k and two 211k receivers with a new owned and purchased hopper and joey. I repeated this and even told her that I always own my receivers etc. Guess what showed under equipment page on my DISH account? One owned joey and one Leased hopper. Of course ! Once again the csrs DO NOT LISTEN to their customers.
I ended up calling DISH and talking to the executive resolution department to get them to change it back to Owned. This was after going through a couple of csrs who could not believe I would pay over $700.00 to own a hopper. I informed them I paid only $318.00 to OWN a hopper and two joeys and a single node, After trade in value of $250.00 for my old receivers to dishdepot.com. I even quoted my receipt and when it was actually completed down to time ,date and order number. The executive resolution department came back after a wait and confirmed that I did indeed own the receivers. So I was promised within 24 hours it would reflect the owned status on my account. I took all the names down and id numbers and I still have my receipt from Dishdepot.com to show I bought them. I'm betting that by tomorrow evening I will be recalling DISH again to resolve this. This time I will go straight through cancellation to get it resolved and quit fooling with the front line csrs and techs.
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?
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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Tony as the director.
Would you rather have LaRoche ???Tony as the director.
No. Bring in someone new.
Tony is not serious enough for me. Parker is too close to the team and Tim is too young to take over IMO.
I don't think Tim and Tony are that far apart in Age ...No. Bring in someone new.
Remember what Tony said to Tim when they first got back together ...
Tony said: I am the New Tony, Tim .... (something to that effect)
Tony has changed, he's been running his Security Business ... I'm sure he has grown up.
Give it time ... your judging the New Tony from the old Tony.
It sounds like Tim won't be around the Team much longer either.
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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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Anyone making their own breakfast sausage? I've recently been trying different recipes, found some I like, some I've modified...
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Who cares if it's cheaper than store bought. you do realize that ground beef is like hot dogs right lips and a**holes!!! you have no idea whats in it and what animal came from what carcass right
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For quite a while now, people with a VIP211k have been losing their recordings on their activated external HDDs... even when there's nothing physically wrong with HDD. I believe this is an intentional and underhanded tactic that Dish is pulling in an attempt to force users away from the VIP211k.
They are obviously regretting that they ever let users have a "non-dvr" dvr in the first place. You would think they would be happy charging you a $40 one time fee... and then be happy letting the customer be the one responsible for HDD failures.
Dish clearly hates the 211k bitter-clingers. This recording deletion problem is intentional (IMO), and I think it is just one more tool that they are using. Hopper and a 2-year agreement... that's what they want you to have. Think about that... a 2-year agreement... with a company $30 Billion in debt (that's with a B). What happens when all that debt causes them to drop the channel that may have been your whole reason for having Dish in the first place? Guess who's stuck with a service that no longer suits their needs... for the remainder of the 2-year agreement.
On top of that, they don't want you to install it yourself. I purchased and installed all my equipment myself. That used to be common. Now, they lie to me and tell me that my dish must be updated to use a Hopper. Funny thing is... they don't even know what dish I have because they didn't install it, and I didn't tell them. If you ask what type of dish/LNBs the hopper needs... good luck getting an answer. All they know is that whatever you have needs to be upgraded by an installer.
It is quite apparent to me that they care much more about staying in their box, than they do working with the customer. That's too bad, because it hasn't always been that way. It's like they are totally unaware of the current business environment that they are trying to compete in.
I have been a customer since 2010. I will be cancelling my service before the next period. Yeah, I know, my $1,200 a year won't make a difference to them. It just seems like they have forgotten who needs who, especially when you consider the competition in today's streaming world. But hey, they will have succeed in forcing me off the 211k.
They are obviously regretting that they ever let users have a "non-dvr" dvr in the first place. You would think they would be happy charging you a $40 one time fee... and then be happy letting the customer be the one responsible for HDD failures.
Dish clearly hates the 211k bitter-clingers. This recording deletion problem is intentional (IMO), and I think it is just one more tool that they are using. Hopper and a 2-year agreement... that's what they want you to have. Think about that... a 2-year agreement... with a company $30 Billion in debt (that's with a B). What happens when all that debt causes them to drop the channel that may have been your whole reason for having Dish in the first place? Guess who's stuck with a service that no longer suits their needs... for the remainder of the 2-year agreement.
On top of that, they don't want you to install it yourself. I purchased and installed all my equipment myself. That used to be common. Now, they lie to me and tell me that my dish must be updated to use a Hopper. Funny thing is... they don't even know what dish I have because they didn't install it, and I didn't tell them. If you ask what type of dish/LNBs the hopper needs... good luck getting an answer. All they know is that whatever you have needs to be upgraded by an installer.
It is quite apparent to me that they care much more about staying in their box, than they do working with the customer. That's too bad, because it hasn't always been that way. It's like they are totally unaware of the current business environment that they are trying to compete in.
I have been a customer since 2010. I will be cancelling my service before the next period. Yeah, I know, my $1,200 a year won't make a difference to them. It just seems like they have forgotten who needs who, especially when you consider the competition in today's streaming world. But hey, they will have succeed in forcing me off the 211k.
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Has anyone subscribed to NBA League Pass for 2026-27 and try to link their account to NBA.com to stream League Pass? I purchased it for 2026-27, and when I linked, I got a message saying success, but then I receive an error that my linked subscription does not include the preseason games for NBA League Pass. Is that how it has always been? I know satellite doesn't have the preseason games on the NBA League Pass channels, but I thought that I was able to stream the preseason once I linked my account on NBA.com?
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Really excited for this season with Kentucky having a new coach and some really exciting recruits. Probably won't last long, but here's hoping this season is great.
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Nah, you just don't understand how ignore works, which is why you made your own NFL thread thinking there wasn't one
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.
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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Remember folks... just like DNS... its always Foxbat. 
WTF… …What the Foxbat!Remember folks... just like DNS... its always Foxbat.
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wow what a kick in the balls!!! the wife blames you when things don't work now scott's blaming youWTF… …What the Foxbat!
I know. Here's what Scott has in store for me if I get out of line:wow what a kick in the balls!!! the wife blames you when things don't work now scott's blaming you
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OMG to freaking funny
You're no fun.
