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Last reply Apr 22, 2012 · posted in DISH Network Support Forum

Returning to Dish as a "New" customer

For how long (minimum) do you have to leave Dish to be able to return and signup as a "New" customer?

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petesgarden

Apr 18, 2012

Are there typically any upgrade promos for existing customers (8+ years here...)?

Coach Knight

Apr 18, 2012

Mary and all, thanks for that info. Fortunately most that I have DVR'd is movies and I can get those again about anytime, either through Blockbuster, Netflix or just record again.

To petesgarden, I have not been here as long as others but in my couple of years here it seems that the best I'm seeing is sometimes they offer free premiums for a few months or maybe $10 off for a year or something. But I'm sure someone with more knowledge will chime in soon.

The bundle offer Time Warner offered was tempting in itself, but the way I see it right now is this...I can go to TWC for three months or so...save $40 a month during a period of time (Summer) we watch and record much less TV. Then go back to Dish when many of the Hopper issues should be ironed out (including two Hoppers seeing each other and the OTA) and get $30 off per month, which is their current offer, for another 12 months. This move temporarily would save approx. $480 (probably $450 after sending back my two receivers at $15 each). It's quite an appealing option considering I'd only have to be gone three months.

mdonnelly

Apr 18, 2012

Coach Knight said:
...The bundle offer Time Warner offered was tempting in itself, but the way I see it right now is this...I can go to TWC for three months or so...save $40 a month during a period of time (Summer) we watch and record much less TV. Then go back to Dish when many of the Hopper issues should be ironed out (including two Hoppers seeing each other and the OTA) and get $30 off per month, which is their current offer, for another 12 months. This move temporarily would save approx. $480 (probably $450 after sending back my two receivers at $15 each). It's quite an appealing option considering I'd only have to be gone three months.

To get the "New User" offers from Dish it requires a two year committment. If you're out of contract now, then I guess you could do it once.

Coach Knight

Apr 19, 2012

mdonnelly said:
To get the "New User" offers from Dish it requires a two year committment. If you're out of contract now, then I guess you could do it once.

Correct, I have no problem committing to Dish another two years. In fact, I prefer them by far over Time Warner. $450 or so for a three month change is pretty significant though. The TWC deal is no contract, price guaranteed for twelve months. I could be back before football season since they don't have NFL Network or Redzone.

tconnors

Apr 19, 2012

That looks like the best way to get the Hopper/Joey and save the most $$. Although I am considering signing up my wife as a new account (we are moving), and just going straight to the Hopper/Joey. The new house is on TWC, but not sure if I can stand TWC for 3 months. I have RoadRunner, but my rate just went way up, probably switch to Earthlink.

harshness

Apr 19, 2012

petesgarden said:
Are there typically any upgrade promos for existing customers (8+ years here...)?

You must call (or otherwise make contact) and ask. Some get nothing and others get pretty sweet deals.

Jonhern

Apr 22, 2012

harshness said:
You must call (or otherwise make contact) and ask. Some get nothing and others get pretty sweet deals.

Once we cancelled, within a week we got a promo in the mail to come back to dish. They were claiming $400 savings, but $240 of that was hd free for life which i would not count, already had that. Anyway, its $10 off per month for a year, and free showtime for 3 months. IDK about what they will charge for equipment, but since if you cancel you are sending your stuff back, I am guessing they will give you new customer pricing on that, but IDK. But kind of silly for them to offer this only after I left, I am with Fios now, have no contract but not going to come back for this offer and go through a switch all over again. Especially after looking more into how the hopper works, we would need 3 hoppers and two joeys to satisfy our households viewing habits, where the two joeys would be those tvs are always used for live tv, and if the 3rd hopper was a joey instead that would just create a lot of conflicts in recordings and available tuners. Even on fios with whole home dvr I tried to show my mom and grandmother how to watch programs on the other 3 dvrs from their STB and they just don't care and just want to watch stuff live, lol. And even though the promo says they will do "almost anything", I highly doubt they will give us 3 hoppers.

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iJustine

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"MysteryMan"

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Last reply 12 minutes ago · posted in Computers and Gadgets

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EarDemon

Oct 13, 2026

If it wasn't for what I want, I wouldn't need any of this.

Do I need a collection of handheld radios, scanners and speed enforcement countermeasures? Nope, but I want them. Very little, if any of the software used to interface with these devices is available on Linux.

WhiteBeard

Oct 13, 2026

EarDemon said:
If it wasn't for what I want, I wouldn't need any of this.

Do I need a collection of handheld radios, scanners and speed enforcement countermeasures? Nope, but I want them. Very little, if any of the software used to interface with these devices is available on Linux.

To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything.

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EarDemon

Oct 14, 2026

WhiteBeard said:
To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything.

For niche use cases, yes I agree. Kali for ethical hacking and security testing, and running a Cacti server for network monitoring are the two things I have experience in. Plus thousands and thousands of other things, but for every day use I just can't see it. The owner of the GMRS repeater that I pay to access is changing the Tx DPL tones tomorrow, while Chirp is available on Linux, the software to program my MXT500 is not.

I run Fedora and Ubuntu in VMWare, honestly I don't care much for the UI of either of them and I don't feel like spending days/weeks to customize the UI to make it look Windows-like when I could just use Windows. The cartoonish dock at the bottom of the screen reminds me of Apple products.

harshness

Oct 15, 2026

EarDemon said:
I don't care much for the UI of either of them and I don't feel like spending days/weeks to customize the UI to make it look Windows-like when I could just use Windows.

What is so fantabulous about the Windows UI? By many accounts, it has been going downhill since Windows 7.

There are Linux desktops that offer Windows or Mac UIs, yet you don't hear much chatter about them outside of questions about when the creators might get sued.

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EarDemon

Oct 15, 2026

harshness said:
What is so fantabulous about the Windows UI?

Because it's what I prefer. I know I've said this a few times, I use Open Shell to give me the cascading start menu a la WIN 95 and NT4.0. The only reason I went from Windows Vista to 7 back in the day was because of Classic Shell. I cannot stand anything other than the OG start menu from 30+ years ago. I'm using ExplorerPatcher to give me Windows 10 UI elements of the taskbar and right click context menus.

If you could take a look at how I set up Windows 95, you'd find many similarities to how I use 11.

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EarDemon

Oct 15, 2026

I could probably use that as a starting point, but I don't like the full size icons. If you have to click on each folder that's also a no-go for me, it has to be cascading.

I used to have Peppermint Linux in a VM, that was about as close as I could get to recreating a Windows NT4.0 style of menu structure, but I could never get it to scale properly in VMWare on a 4K display and eventually gave up.

Whatever the boot up time it's fine with me. The longest part of my bootup is the HP SureStart BIOS integrity check. Once that is done, it's only a few more seconds. I haven't done this reg tweak yet since the reformat, but I switched the bootup animation to the Windows 10 style spinning circle of dots, and it's two and a half rotations. I can live with that.

harshness

Oct 16, 2026

EarDemon said:
Because it's what I prefer.

I hope you don't believe that makes it wonderful (especially when you're using workarounds for Microsoft's malfeasance).

I use LibreOffice as opposed to Microsoft office (even in Windows) because it's UI is like the Office of old, so I'm putting my money where my mouth is (in a manner of speaking). The ribbon was one of the worst ideas to come out Redmond.

HipKat

Oct 16, 2026

EarDemon said:
I could probably use that as a starting point, but I don't like the full size icons. If you have to click on each folder that's also a no-go for me, it has to be cascading.

I used to have Peppermint Linux in a VM, that was about as close as I could get to recreating a Windows NT4.0 style of menu structure, but I could never get it to scale properly in VMWare on a 4K display and eventually gave up.

Whatever the boot up time it's fine with me. The longest part of my bootup is the HP SureStart BIOS integrity check. Once that is done, it's only a few more seconds. I haven't done this reg tweak yet since the reformat, but I switched the bootup animation to the Windows 10 style spinning circle of dots, and it's two and a half rotations. I can live with that.

I used to pin the C: drive to the Win Taskbar and it would open in cascading style

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12 minutes ago

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14 minutes ago · posted in TWiT Tech Podcast Network

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Scott Greczkowski

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Last reply 39 minutes ago · posted in The Chit Chat Club

Song Name Game Part 3!

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Last reply 43 minutes ago · posted in What's Cooking?

Whats for breakfast?

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Dos cackleberrys over easy on top of 2 corned beef hash patties fried in skillet... Chocolate milk.

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