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Dish has again caught my interest due to their current no nonsense $49.99 promo which I think ends Oct. 30 but I have some questions for the members here whom I always value their knowledge & opinion so forgive my long post.
As a background, I was a Dish subscriber when the Hopper first came out (sales rep didn't even know much about it when I signed up & installer took 3 days to complete install of 2 Joey's & that's after I sent him to this forum after seeing suggestions here). In combination with a Sling adapter I loved the Hopper dvr but always had a problem with the pq on my best tv, a mid end 55" Panasonic ST60 plasma but acceptable on the lower end TVs I have which were 40" & 50" that the Joey's were attached to. I had always found the service economical especially given the features of the Hopper but after having a tech visit to figure out why the picture kept having this slightly "hazy" look, with no solution, & the constant channel dropping & disputes, I decided to switch to Direct. The minute I turned on the Genie I saw a significant improvement in pq over Dish's. Even the D* installer was surprised at the difference in quality but he did point out to me that my signal strength on the Dish satellites were in the 70's & 80's which would be unacceptable in a D* install which was showing 90 something %. The Dish tech did see that on their last visit but he checked the antenna, didn't see anything wrong but said that in Dish's system that signal strength was acceptable.
I liked the Genie but it's certainly was no Hopper but the pq was so great along with their sport channels offerings I stayed with them for the 2 years until my bill kept going up from a start of $95 to over $200 per mth. I tried reducing channels, packages & boxes but could reduce the cost to only $140/mth, which in my opinion is too much for tv, especially after I found out the rest of my family wasn't using the service. Even with all the channels available to them my late teen kids were only using Netflix & Hulu, with the occasional HBO & the wife was only watching OTA channels, so I dropped D* & subscribed to Sling TV for my live cable channel fix. Pq on Sling hasn't been so great but at $25/mth & no contract I've learnt to live with it. But here comes Dish with it's 49.99 for 2 years promo which now makes a whole lot of sense as it now puts a pretty decent service in the affordable range of less than $70/mth, at least for the next 2 years. I expect that the industry will be so disrupted by the ever improving internet options during that time that by then $50/60 cable satellite bills will be the norm.
So given all of the above I've decided to come back to Dish & the Hopper with Sling I've missed so much but here are my questions & concerns. At the install, should I expect the 70 & 80% signal strength I was getting before? I'm in S. Florida so I'm not sure if that's the norm this side of the country. Also, I'm moving just 5 miles away in maybe 3 to 4 mths and haven't been able to get a straight answer if I will be charged for the move & if so how much. I know if I sign up now I will be locked in for 2 years & open to any abuse by Dish at move time. In researching I also discovered that Dish is coming out with a new remote for the HWS which I'm not sure will be supplied with all new subscriber equipment & if not, anyone know what the upgrade price for one will be? With all this, should I just wait till I make the move & hope that the promo or something similar would be on offer then or can I sign up & book an install 3 months from now?
I really hate jumping from provider to provider every couple years but I see Dish as a trying & innovative company like T-Mobile whom I've been a customer for over 11 years. With such a good promo & Dish's constant improvement of the Hopper I feel I could have that long term relationship with them, as long as they continue to provide good value for service as I feel Tmo does. All feedback & suggestions are welcomed.
As a background, I was a Dish subscriber when the Hopper first came out (sales rep didn't even know much about it when I signed up & installer took 3 days to complete install of 2 Joey's & that's after I sent him to this forum after seeing suggestions here). In combination with a Sling adapter I loved the Hopper dvr but always had a problem with the pq on my best tv, a mid end 55" Panasonic ST60 plasma but acceptable on the lower end TVs I have which were 40" & 50" that the Joey's were attached to. I had always found the service economical especially given the features of the Hopper but after having a tech visit to figure out why the picture kept having this slightly "hazy" look, with no solution, & the constant channel dropping & disputes, I decided to switch to Direct. The minute I turned on the Genie I saw a significant improvement in pq over Dish's. Even the D* installer was surprised at the difference in quality but he did point out to me that my signal strength on the Dish satellites were in the 70's & 80's which would be unacceptable in a D* install which was showing 90 something %. The Dish tech did see that on their last visit but he checked the antenna, didn't see anything wrong but said that in Dish's system that signal strength was acceptable.
I liked the Genie but it's certainly was no Hopper but the pq was so great along with their sport channels offerings I stayed with them for the 2 years until my bill kept going up from a start of $95 to over $200 per mth. I tried reducing channels, packages & boxes but could reduce the cost to only $140/mth, which in my opinion is too much for tv, especially after I found out the rest of my family wasn't using the service. Even with all the channels available to them my late teen kids were only using Netflix & Hulu, with the occasional HBO & the wife was only watching OTA channels, so I dropped D* & subscribed to Sling TV for my live cable channel fix. Pq on Sling hasn't been so great but at $25/mth & no contract I've learnt to live with it. But here comes Dish with it's 49.99 for 2 years promo which now makes a whole lot of sense as it now puts a pretty decent service in the affordable range of less than $70/mth, at least for the next 2 years. I expect that the industry will be so disrupted by the ever improving internet options during that time that by then $50/60 cable satellite bills will be the norm.
So given all of the above I've decided to come back to Dish & the Hopper with Sling I've missed so much but here are my questions & concerns. At the install, should I expect the 70 & 80% signal strength I was getting before? I'm in S. Florida so I'm not sure if that's the norm this side of the country. Also, I'm moving just 5 miles away in maybe 3 to 4 mths and haven't been able to get a straight answer if I will be charged for the move & if so how much. I know if I sign up now I will be locked in for 2 years & open to any abuse by Dish at move time. In researching I also discovered that Dish is coming out with a new remote for the HWS which I'm not sure will be supplied with all new subscriber equipment & if not, anyone know what the upgrade price for one will be? With all this, should I just wait till I make the move & hope that the promo or something similar would be on offer then or can I sign up & book an install 3 months from now?
I really hate jumping from provider to provider every couple years but I see Dish as a trying & innovative company like T-Mobile whom I've been a customer for over 11 years. With such a good promo & Dish's constant improvement of the Hopper I feel I could have that long term relationship with them, as long as they continue to provide good value for service as I feel Tmo does. All feedback & suggestions are welcomed.
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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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Several Dish offers showed up today in my account. Once you choose one the rest are removed. Offers were Showtime, Starz, AMC and others.
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Not for me, mines has no mention of how long aka the offer period and the Terms and conditions the $0.00 is good for. All I see is one can lose $5.00 if you decide to remove it before day 31 after you add it to the account.
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I created this thread on the original Edgecutter Cutting Edge Forums site. It's simply a place for those to review the latest software available for those using Windows 10 and Windows 11. To date it has received 112,559 views. I have been asked by staff to continue this thread here.
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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.To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything.
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.
As I said above, and, FWIW, I run Win11 Pro and Arch on separate 250 GB NVME drives, using F8 to select which I boot to, with a 1TB SSD for storage, accessible to both OSs and a third formatted Nvme I want to use to learn Kali. It was much faster to setup Arch than it was to strip down Windows. Windows still takes much longer to boot.
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
Help, I'm a little confjused on the activation process.
I purchased the Joey 4 from Solid Signal and shipping box has Call 866 726-4282 to Avtivate new Receiver. That number is Solid Signals number.
I googled and that search said call Dish to activate. I assume that is correct unless this requires a 2 step process.
Please let me know.
Thanks
I purchased the Joey 4 from Solid Signal and shipping box has Call 866 726-4282 to Avtivate new Receiver. That number is Solid Signals number.
I googled and that search said call Dish to activate. I assume that is correct unless this requires a 2 step process.
Please let me know.
Thanks
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All good called Dish and new Joey 4 is activated and working.
Old Joey 2 deactivated and no need to return.
Old Joey 2 deactivated and no need to return.
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i bought mine straight from dish as it was only $ 100.00 bucks!!! had the protection plan they came out removed and deactivated the 4k joey and activated and installed the joey 4.All good called Dish and new Joey 4 is activated and working.
Old Joey 2 deactivated and no need to return.
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Apple has finally released their Apple TV 4K with built-in Siri and a microphone so it can respond to your queries even if you don't have the remote. It also increases in price, to $299. I had been planning on updating my current Apple TV 4K streamers, but that's $600 for the two of them, and that's a pass at this point.
At $299, it had better come with 256 GB of Storage, Gigabit (or better) Ethernet, the latest HDMI tech and standards, and one year of free Apple One. But it probably won't…
At $299, it had better come with 256 GB of Storage, Gigabit (or better) Ethernet, the latest HDMI tech and standards, and one year of free Apple One. But it probably won't…
Apple TV 4K
Apple TV 4K. New Siri AI and hands-free control. Stunning picture and immersive HomePod surround sound. Works with your Apple and smart home devices.
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. apple's been making money off of software and not hardware for a while
they all do that anyways.. ever notice your cell phone slows down when you come up for an upgrade..
. apple's been making money off of software and not hardware for a while
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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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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