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Range007

Last reply Oct 12, 2012 · posted in DISH Network Support Forum

New Install Impressions

I hope this is the right forum to place this as I couldn't find a forum which included this type of posting.

I just wanted to provide some feedback of the installation, picture quality, and programming of my recent Dish Network installation. I live in an apartment complex so I had to go through a local authorized reseller for my Dish service. The technician said the previous dish on roof of apartment was incompatible with my package so he installed a new satellite dish. I bundled my DISH TV with TDS Internet and phone and received a hellova deal. It took about 1.5 hours to complete entire installation which included a 222k HD Duo receiver, two UHF remotes, wiring to a second TV in bedroom, and Wireless USB adapter. Installer explained common remote functions and also covered pertinent details of contract and obtained my required signature. The technician was professional and performed what in my opinion was a very solid job in the Dish installation. The only minor negative would be the total time of the installation.

The PQ is stunning on my Samsung 1080P LED Screen using a HDMI connection. Response time when changing channels is light years better than on the Dish System I had back in 1996 LOL. Another plus is the ability to include 7 channels on EPG.

Negatives include the annoying "watch your favorite shows on dishonline.com" nag message and other variants. It seems the DISH remote controls barely any functions of my TV. (better remote code??) Subscribed Superstations HD feeds show up in guide but have error messages when attempting to view. A very pleasant experience so far. Even received two free PPV movies for completion of online ID.

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Range007

Oct 9, 2012

Thanks to all for the suggestions. Much appreciated.

BUT!! It looks like I spoke to soon about my installation. Tonight when I got home I had a screen that says I am not receiving signal. There was off and on rain today in my area but it wasn't heavy nor any thunderstorm, lightning or thunder either. The message which was displayed on my receiver listed troubleshooting steps which instructed me to unplug for 10 seconds and in 5 minutes all should be done. Well that didn't work. Followed all troubleshoot steps such as checking connections, etc and nothing has helped. Called the local authorized reseller but they just have a message where they will call back as soon as they can. Probably after hours so won't hear back till morning. Called dish and they went through some check switch step but my lack of Dish service is left unchanged. National DISH told me they could have someone here on Thursday afternoon.

But I believe (hope) the local authorized reseller and their technician will hopefully be out tomorrow to fix whatever is bunked up. Not too happy only TWO days in and this mess

dishcomm

Oct 10, 2012

Range007 said:
Thanks to all for the suggestions. Much appreciated.

BUT!! It looks like I spoke to soon about my installation. Tonight when I got home I had a screen that says I am not receiving signal. There was off and on rain today in my area but it wasn't heavy nor any thunderstorm, lightning or thunder either. The message which was displayed on my receiver listed troubleshooting steps which instructed me to unplug for 10 seconds and in 5 minutes all should be done. Well that didn't work. Followed all troubleshoot steps such as checking connections, etc and nothing has helped. Called the local authorized reseller but they just have a message where they will call back as soon as they can. Probably after hours so won't hear back till morning. Called dish and they went through some check switch step but my lack of Dish service is left unchanged. National DISH told me they could have someone here on Thursday afternoon. But I believe (hope) the local authorized reseller and their technician will hopefully be out tomorrow to fix whatever is bunked up. Not too happy only TWO days in and this mess

Samsung as well as Toshiba tvs are the bane of the technicians existence. Here's why. When the tv is set to the improper input, there is a message on the screen that says "mo signal" or no video signal"..Most customers believe this is a satellite reception problem. It is not. The most common occurance is the user has set the tv to the incorrect input.

R0ss

Oct 11, 2012

dishcomm said:
Samsung as well as Toshiba tvs are the bane of the technicians existence. Here's why. When the tv is set to the improper input, there is a message on the screen that says "mo signal" or no video signal"..Most customers believe this is a satellite reception problem. It is not. The most common occurance is the user has set the tv to the incorrect input.

If the tv was on the wrong input there would not be a troubleshooting screen from the dish receiver....op stated that he had the dish signal lost screen with trouble shooting steps.

Ross

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R0ss

Oct 11, 2012

Range007 said:
Thanks to all for the suggestions. Much appreciated.

BUT!! It looks like I spoke to soon about my installation. Tonight when I got home I had a screen that says I am not receiving signal. There was off and on rain today in my area but it wasn't heavy nor any thunderstorm, lightning or thunder either. The message which was displayed on my receiver listed troubleshooting steps which instructed me to unplug for 10 seconds and in 5 minutes all should be done. Well that didn't work. Followed all troubleshoot steps such as checking connections, etc and nothing has helped. Called the local authorized reseller but they just have a message where they will call back as soon as they can. Probably after hours so won't hear back till morning. Called dish and they went through some check switch step but my lack of Dish service is left unchanged. National DISH told me they could have someone here on Thursday afternoon. But I believe (hope) the local authorized reseller and their technician will hopefully be out tomorrow to fix whatever is bunked up. Not too happy only TWO days in and this mess

Many years ago i had odd problems with a 722. Lost signal, not weather related, was the big one. Tech came checked dish alignment etc. Problem returned. The bottom line was i was told that the dish receiver should be plugged directly into the wall, not into a surge protector or power strip. Don't know if that solved the problem but the problem did go away. I have always plugged directly into wall since. Except for a dying hard drive never had the problem again.

Ross

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Range007

Oct 11, 2012

Well, thought I'd provide a quick update. The problem turned out to be Charter and its technician. When they went to disconnect my cable Internet service (I didn't have tv services). They disconnected the Dish cabling and put a double stopper or whatever it was the Dish technician had said. Total external factor in this case. I am calling Charter to voice my extreme displeasure. Once again thanks for all the input, I've definitely learned more than I previously knew.

Peter Parker

Oct 12, 2012

I prefer pluggung a DVR into an UPS. It prevents alot of problems and stops atwo second outage from ruininga recording.

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"MysteryMan"

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Last reply 19 minutes ago · posted in Computers and Gadgets

Windows 10/11 Download

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EarDemon

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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.

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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.

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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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